On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 03:03:40PM +0200, Ionel Cristian Mărieș wrote:
Yes, it does, however my assertion looks similar to this:
assert result == [1,2, (3, 4, {"bubu": OSError('foobar')})]
I'm not keen on using assert like that. I think that using assert for testing is close to abuse of the statement, and it makes it impossible to test your code running with -O. But regardless of whether that specific test is good practice or not, I think it is reasonable for exception instances to have a more useful __eq__ than that provided by inheriting from object. Perhaps add something like this to BaseException: def __eq__(self, other): if isinstance(other, type(self)): return self.args == other.args return NotImplemented -- Steve