On 16 Apr 2007 15:13:42 -0700, john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>All:
>
>Hi. I am an experienced developer (15 yrs), but new to Python and have
>a question re unittest and assertRaises. No matter what I raise,
>assertRaises is never successful. Here is the test code:
>
>
>class Foo:
> def testException(self):
> raise ValueError
>
>class FooTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
>
> testTryThis(self):
> f = Foo()
> self.assertRaises(ValueError, f.testException())
>
The 2nd argument to assertRaises should be a callable. assertRaises
will call it (so that it can do exception handling), so you shouldn't:
self.assertRaises(ValueError, f.testException)
Jean-Paul
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