this is better written using assertRaises

2bf74fd0 · Benjamin Peterson · 03715486 · 2bf74fd0
Kaydet (Commit) 2bf74fd0 authored Mar 24, 2009 tarafından Benjamin Peterson
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test_support.py Lib/test/test_support.py +2 -6

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--- a/Lib/test/test_support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_support.py
@@ -370,12 +370,8 @@ def make_bad_fd():
        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