From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:24:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: this is better written using assertRaises
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~1802
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2bf74fd0ac6e30f1e8234954d30920016f33736e;p=python

this is better written using assertRaises
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_support.py b/Lib/test/test_support.py
index 5186a57dd3..df3dce6756 100644
--- 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