commit 2bf74fd0ac6e30f1e8234954d30920016f33736e
author Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Tue Mar 24 03:24:56 2009 +0000
committer Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Tue Mar 24 03:24:56 2009 +0000
tree 48e67ef8aae287af8ded457a5dc1bd69c5a750a1
parent 037154865e9f1f9dd64a1120a76ebc899cc86f95

this is better written using assertRaises

Lib/test/test_support.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_support.py b/Lib/test/test_support.py
index 5186a57..df3dce6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_support.py
@@ -370,12 +370,8 @@
         unlink(TESTFN)
 
 def check_syntax_error(testcase, statement):
-    try:
-        compile(statement, '<test string>', 'exec')
-    except SyntaxError:
-        pass
-    else:
-        testcase.fail('Missing SyntaxError: "%s"' % statement)
+    testcase.assertRaises(SyntaxError, compile, statement,
+                          '<test string>', 'exec')
 
 def open_urlresource(url):
     import urllib, urlparse