Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Jonathan Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Michael Foord >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > assert_raises_with_message (exc_class, message, callable, *args, >> > **keywargs) >> > >> >> I don't think this one should go in. >> >> I think it would be better if assertRaises just returned the exception >> object that it catches. That way, you can test properties of the >> exception other than its message. > > Hm. I've got to say that returning the exception object is, um, an odd > API in the set of unittest APIs. I can see how it's sometimes more > powerful, but I'd say that in many cases assertRaisesWithMessage will > be easier to write and read. (And making it a regex match would be > even cooler.) > In which case assertRaisesMatching (and then eventually assert_raises_matching) might be a better name for it?
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