[TurboGears] Re: how to test for exceptions with nose?

[Alberto Valverde]

On Aug 4, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Jorge Vargas wrote: Hi I have been reading about nose and I find it great. I have been looking into TG's test and all exceptions related are like this, so say the exception name in the string but what if I must be sure that I get exception type X try: w.name = "foo" assert False, "should have gotten an exception" except ValueError: pass I have this, but it will actually fail all the time, and since we don't have python 2.6 we can't use the try/catch/finally, so any suggestions on how to test for method foo to raise exception bar and fail the test if that doesn't happen?     def test_create(self):         try:             source.create ()         except NotImplementedError:             assert True         assert False Hi, if using a unittest.TestCase subclass for your tests (like TG's DBTest) you can use the failUnlessRaises method. class TestMyApp(TestCase): def test_int(self): """ test that int("a") raises a ValueError """  self.failUnlessRaises(ValueError, int, "a") # As in your example: def test_create(self): self.failUnlessRaises(NotImplementedError, source.create) HTH, Alberto --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to turbogears@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---