[New-bugs-announce] [issue24922] assertWarnsRegex doesn't allow multiple warning messages

[Cal Leeming]

New submission from Cal Leeming:

There was a discussion/patch in #9754 [1].

This allows for multiple warning types as a tuple, e.g.;

    self.assertWarnsRegex((DeprecationWarning, RuntimeWarning), "^E1000:")

However, it does not allow testing for multiple warning messages, e.g.;

    expect = ((UserWarning, "^W1000"), (UserWarning, "^W1001"))
    self.assertWarnsRegex(*expect)

This is slightly unexpected, as `test.support.check_warnings` allows this behaviour, e.g.

    expect = ((UserWarning, "^W1000"), (UserWarning, "^W1001"))
    check_warnings(*expect)

Therefore I am proposing that `assertWarnsRegex` and `assertWarns` are modified to reflect the behaviour of `check_warnings`, whilst ensuring backwards compatibility. (e.g. if arg[0] is tuple, use new approach, otherwise use old approach).

[1]: http://bugs.python.org/issue9754

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 249048
nosy: sleepycal
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: assertWarnsRegex doesn't allow multiple warning messages
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.4

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