unit testing properties

[Duncan Booth]

"Mark McEahern" <mark at mceahern.com> wrote in
news:mailman.1011319347.7193.python-list at python.org: 

>           def testSetter(self):
>                f = Foo()
>                self.assertRaises(AttributeError, f.bar...
> 
> That's where I get stopped.  The second param to assertRaises is
> supposed to be a callable object--but I want to test a setter.  Hmm,
> any ideas? 

How about using setattr?
def testSetter(self):
    f = Foo()
    self.assertRaises(AttributeError, setattr, f, 'bar', 42)



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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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