I See Dead Code

A small context manager for stating assertions about exceptions in Python unit tests: @contextmanager def assert_raises(*exc_types): """A context to ensure that an exception of a given type is thrown.   Instead of   @nose.tools.raises(ValueError) def test_that_raises(): # … lengthy setup raise ValueError   you can write   def test_that_raises_at_the_end(): # … lengthy setup with assert_raises(ValueError): [...]

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