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Improve exception tests

See original GitHub issue

Maybe we should change the way we test exceptions (see #476) to always use a context manger as this way is easier to understand.

def test_it(self):
    self.assertRaises(SomeException, do_something, 42, True)

def test_it_with_context(self):
    with self.assertRaises(SomeException):
        do_something(42, True)

Steps

update old tests
document this in the readme for new exercises

Issue Analytics

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:7 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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ilya-khadykincommented, Oct 17, 2017

@cmccandless, wow, thanks a lot and sorry for the delay in review

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cmccandlesscommented, Oct 17, 2017

As there is already a large amount of pull issues and pull requests designated for Hacktoberfest, I went ahead and created a single pull request for this (#945).

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