rewrite nocaret test to not rely on a specific SyntaxError
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_traceback.py b/Lib/test/test_traceback.py
index 3db8864..11bdf58 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_traceback.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_traceback.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
import sys
import unittest
import re
-from test.support import run_unittest, is_jython, Error, captured_output
+from test.support import run_unittest, Error, captured_output
from test.support import TESTFN, unlink
import traceback
@@ -29,10 +29,6 @@
def syntax_error_with_caret_2(self):
compile("1 +\n", "?", "exec")
- def syntax_error_without_caret(self):
- # XXX why doesn't compile raise the same traceback?
- import test.badsyntax_nocaret
-
def syntax_error_bad_indentation(self):
compile("def spam():\n print(1)\n print(2)", "?", "exec")
@@ -51,13 +47,10 @@
self.assertTrue(err[1].find("+") == err[2].find("^")) # in the right place
def test_nocaret(self):
- if is_jython:
- # jython adds a caret in this case (why shouldn't it?)
- return
- err = self.get_exception_format(self.syntax_error_without_caret,
- SyntaxError)
+ exc = SyntaxError("error", ("x.py", 23, None, "bad syntax"))
+ err = traceback.format_exception_only(SyntaxError, exc)
self.assertEqual(len(err), 3)
- self.assertTrue(err[1].strip() == "[x for x in x] = x")
+ self.assertEqual(err[1].strip(), "bad syntax")
def test_bad_indentation(self):
err = self.get_exception_format(self.syntax_error_bad_indentation,