Re: [Zope-dev] Summary of this week's IRC meeting (2010-04-06)

2010-04-06 Thread Marius Gedminas 
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 12:15:41PM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
> Some discussion of the general problem of doctests breaking due to exception
> formatting led to a suggestion from Jim Fulton that we implement a testing
> API similar the ``unittest.TestCase.assertRaises``, but with the additional
> feature that it returns the exception value, to permit further assertions
> about the state of that object.

unittest.TestCase.assertRaises gives you access to the exception value
afterwards, starting with Python 2.7.  It's been backported to older
versions of Python and placed on PyPI as unittest2:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2

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Re: [Zope-dev] Summary of this week's IRC meeting (2010-04-06)

2010-04-06 Thread Charlie Clark 
Am 06.04.2010, 18:15 Uhr, schrieb Tres Seaver :

> I am attaching this week's summary.

Thanks, Tres. I really like this "bite-size" approach. As Theuni mentioned  
last week we'll also need a way for handling the supersized issues.

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