unittest.FunctionTestCase.assertRaises¶

FunctionTestCase.assertRaises(excClass, callableObj=None, *args, **kwargs)¶

Fail unless an exception of class excClass is raised by callableObj when invoked with arguments args and keyword arguments kwargs. If a different type of exception is raised, it will not be caught, and the test case will be deemed to have suffered an error, exactly as for an unexpected exception.

If called with callableObj omitted or None, will return a context object used like this:

with self.assertRaises(SomeException):
    do_something()

The context manager keeps a reference to the exception as the ‘exception’ attribute. This allows you to inspect the exception after the assertion:

with self.assertRaises(SomeException) as cm:
    do_something()
the_exception = cm.exception
self.assertEqual(the_exception.error_code, 3)