[docs] [issue18566] In unittest.TestCase docs for setUp() and tearDown() don't mention AssertionError

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

I re-ran with setUp 'raise' changed to 'pass' to see the effect of raise AssertionError or unittest.SkipTest in tearDown and indeed the test fails or skips even then. I suggest adding ', other than AssertionError or SkipTest,' just after 'method'. The same is true of test_xxx methods.

A slight anomaly is that AssertionError in test_nothing and SkipTest in tearDown results in "FAILED (failures=1, skipped=1)", which is not really a skip.

For setUpClass and setUpModule, AssertionErrors *are* errors, not failures, while SkipTest works everywhere.

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nosy: +terry.reedy
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.3

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