Re: [Pyunit-interest] assertRaises question

[Steve P. <ste...@ya...>]

in...@mj... wrote:
> according to the documenation, assertRaises expects a function to test
> as a 2nd argument
> 
> now I want to test if
> addr = Address()
> addr.email = "wrong"
> 
> raises an Exception. how can I test this with assertRaises ???


Short answer: you can't, unless you wrap it in a function.

Longer answer: generally one would just code this as follows:

 addr = Address()
 try:
     addr.email = 'wrong'
 except IllegalFormatException:
     pass
 else:
     self.fail()

But in your case you also could do this:

 self.assertRaises(IllegalFormatException, setattr, (addr, 'email', 'wrong'))

Hope that helps,

-Steve


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