Re: [Pyunit-interest] problem using assertRaises

[Fred L. D. Jr. <fd...@ac...>]

robin and jim writes:
 > However, test_02 does not work as expected; when the open()
 > operation fails, the test also fails (i.e., the exception is not
 > caught by assertRaises).

That's because the exception is being raised before assertRaises() has
been called.  Try this:

      def test_02(self):
         '''handling the failure to connect with and log onto a FTP server'''
         self.assertRaises(Exception, self.testable.open)

(Note the parens have been removed from testable.open, allowing
assertRaises() to make the call, and handle the exception.)


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
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