Re: [Pyunit-interest] Assert that an Exception is NOT raised.

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

Timothy Grant writes:
 > I'm pretty new to PyUnit, one of the things I think is neat is that
 > there's a difference between test Failures and Errors. The problem is, I
 > want to assert that an Exception is NOT raised, but the test fails with
 > an Error because an Exception is raised.
 > 
 > Is there something like assertDoesNotRaise(ExceptionClass)?

I'm afraid I've never found the distinction very useful in practice.
Whether something is reported as a failure or an error, I need to fix
a bug somewhere, and that's really the issue.


  -Fred

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