[issue2578] Figure out what to do with unittest's redundant APIs
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Mar 30 21:51:51 CEST 2009
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
> > Wouldn't it be simpler to make assertRaises return the exception and let
> > the calling code match it as it feels like?
>
> Hm, that sounds awfully familiar. I can't recall if there was ever a
> good reason not to do this.
IIRC some people felt that having a function named "assertSomething"
return something other None wasn't "pure".
The other reason is that you couldn't get the raised exception in a very
practical way if used as a context manager.
> > (or, at least, find a shorter name than assertRaisesWithRegexpMatch :-))
>
> assertRaisesRegex?
Sounds better!
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