Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > > Wouldn't it be simpler to make assertRaises return the exception and let > > the calling code match it as it feels like? > > Hm, that sounds awfully familiar. I can't recall if there was ever a > good reason not to do this.
IIRC some people felt that having a function named "assertSomething" return something other None wasn't "pure". The other reason is that you couldn't get the raised exception in a very practical way if used as a context manager. > > (or, at least, find a shorter name than assertRaisesWithRegexpMatch :-)) > > assertRaisesRegex? Sounds better! ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2578> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
