unit testing failure makes no sense

[Peter Otten]

listservs at mac.com wrote:

> I have some unit testing code in one of my modules that appears to
> run without an error, but the unit test fails anyhow. Have a look at
> the output below -- the TestResult seems to have no errors and no
> failures, yet I get a system exit.

sys.exit(0) is just a normal way to exit a program, and it is implemented as
'raise SystemExit'. You seem to be running your test from within ipython
which probably catches SystemExit exceptions to prevent you from losing
state. Try running your test from the shell and all should be OK.

Peter