[pytest-dev] [3.1 feature] "assert not raise exception" helper: opinions about the name

[Florian Schulze]

On 30 Mar 2017, at 23:36, holger krekel wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 23:08 +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
>> I do because we make something a "magical god function" again, more 
>> of the rant tommorow.
>
> God functions or objects are usually ones that do many different 
> things.
> Here, "pytest.raises" deals with the dependent code block's exception
> raising behaviour -- allowing None (to signal: no exception expected)
> does not change or much extend this functionality.

I think it also reads well. Which exceptions are expected to be raised? 
None.

Regards,
Florian Schulze