Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roy Smith wrote: >> You want something like >> self.assertRaises(AttributeError, lambda: self.combat.value = 1) > > Or, combining the two responses and avoiding the lambda: > > self.assertRaises(AttributeError, setattr, self.combat, 'value', 1) > > Hmm... this might be a case where the lambda form is actually the > more readable one...
Thanks, I hadn't thought of setattr. I was bitten by the "assignment is a statement, so can't be used in a lambda" issue, as well :-) Paul. -- It was a machine, and as such only understood one thing. Being clobbered with big hammers was something it could relate to. -- Tom Holt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
