[Python-Dev] Proposed unittest changes

[Jonathan Lange]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Michael Foord
<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>     assert_raises_with_message    (exc_class, message, callable, *args,
>  **keywargs)
>

I don't think this one should go in.

I think it would be better if assertRaises just returned the exception
object that it catches. That way, you can test properties of the
exception other than its message.

jml