Brian Dorsey wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: >> In a message of Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:40:36 +0200, holger krekel writes: >>> E: AssertionError: (assertion failed, but when it was re-run for >>> printing intermediate values, it did not fail. Suggestions: >>> compute assert expression before the assert or use --nomagic) > <snip> >> Looks great to me. :) > > Quick thanks to Philippe for bringing this up and to everyone else for > taking the time to carefully work on this error message. It seems like > a small thing, but having a good error message in places like this is > the difference between taking a moment or two to change a test vs. > hitting a wall with py.test and maybe giving up entirely.
I agree. I actually had to explain this to students during the exercises for our lectures once or twice, so a clear error message should definitely improve things. Cheers, Carl Friedrich _______________________________________________ py-dev mailing list py-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/py-dev
