[pytest-dev] [3.1 feature] "assert not raise exception" helper: opinions about the name

[Florian Bruhin]

Hey,

On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 05:25:01PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> while experimenting i learned of the fun fact that None is a "valid
> exception type"
> for except clauses on at least python 2.7

But it doesn't seem to be possible to raise it:

    Python 2.7.13 (default, Dec 21 2016, 07:16:46)
    >>> raise None
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    TypeError: exceptions must be old-style classes or derived from BaseException, not NoneType

Florian

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