unittest: assertRaises() with an instance instead of a type

[Ben Finney]

Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes:

> (By the way, I have to question the design of an exception with error 
> codes. That seems pretty poor design to me. Normally the exception *type* 
> acts as equivalent to an error code.)

Have a look at Python's built-in OSError. The various errors from the
operating system can only be distinguished by the numeric code the OS
returns, so that's what to test on in one's unit tests.

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Ben Finney