unittest.assertRaise and keyword arguments?

[Giovanni Bajo]

Bo Peng wrote:

> The syntax for using assertRaise is
>
>    assertRaise(exception, function, para1, para2,...)
>
> However, I have a long list of arguments (>20) so I would like to test
> some of them using keyword arguments (use default for others). Is there
> a way to do this except for manually try...except?


You can pass keyword arguments to assertRaises without problems:

self.assertRaises(ValueError, myfunc, arg1,arg2, arg3, arg4, abc=0, foo=1,
bar="hello")

Or you can always do something like:

self.assertRaises(ValueError, lambda: myfunc(arg1,arg2, arg3, arg4, abc=0,
foo=1, bar="hello"))
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Giovanni Bajo