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r74524 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-08-20 04:39:38 -0500 (Thu, 20 Aug 2009) | 2 lines
Add weakref support to the thread.lock type.
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r74556 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-08-27 17:20:21 -0500 (Thu, 27 Aug 2009) | 2 lines
issue 6275
Add an "exc_value" attribute to the _AssertRaisesContext context manager in the unittest package. This allows further tests on the exception that was raised after the context manager exits.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
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@@ -891,6 +891,10 @@
with self.failUnlessRaises(some_error_class):
do_something()
+ The context manager will store the caught exception object in its
+ :attr:`exc_value` attribute. This can be useful if the intention
+ is to perform additional checks on the exception raised.
+
.. versionchanged:: 3.1
Added the ability to use :meth:`assertRaises` as a context manager.