trying to find nose.tools.assert_raises_regexp

[Ned Batchelder]

On 5/23/14 6:09 PM, qhfgva wrote:
> $ python
> Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56)
> [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import nose.tools
>>>> nose.__version__
> '1.3.3'
>>>> nose.tools.assert_raises_regexp
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'assert_raises_regexp'
>
>
> I see people using code like the following
>
> from nose.tools import assert_equals, assert_raises_regexp
>
> (the above line is from diy-lisp - a python project on githup)
>
> but I'm not able to find a version of nose that explicitly mentions this function.
>
> perplexed...
>

nose.tools auto-creates these names from the names in unittest, with 
this code: 
https://github.com/nose-devs/nose/blob/master/nose/tools/trivial.py#L46

You don't have assert_raises_regexp because your unittest module doesn't 
have assertRaisesRegexp.  That method is new in 2.7, but you are using 
2.6.5, so it doesn't exist.

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Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com