commit c75f0e5bdee3cfaba9fd5b3a8549dec0aba01ebe
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Mon Aug 26 16:02:21 2019 -0700
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Mon Aug 26 16:02:21 2019 -0700
tree 8c2c9ea2978ae529a2f54bd281bf15779a5e8bc9
parent b8a22ac856944d1dded46ed4caa795e07bfaf0c6

Fix an invalid assertEqual() call in test_descr.py (GH-15318)

(cherry picked from commit 6b2e3256b6752055498f41f343fb22100845bc9d)

Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>

Lib/test/test_descr.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_descr.py b/Lib/test/test_descr.py
index 9998a3c..0d0c1dd 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_descr.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_descr.py
@@ -2659,12 +2659,8 @@
         self.assertEqual(Sub.test(), Base.aProp)
 
         # Verify that super() doesn't allow keyword args
-        try:
+        with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
             super(Base, kw=1)
-        except TypeError:
-            pass
-        else:
-            self.assertEqual("super shouldn't accept keyword args")
 
     def test_basic_inheritance(self):
         # Testing inheritance from basic types...