[Python-checkins] bpo-38320: Clarify that expectedFailure is satisfied by either failure or error of the test. (GH-22740)
Irit Katriel
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Mon Oct 19 17:27:25 EDT 2020
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fa8748271a61177e9bf609921fa464cc6990478b
commit: fa8748271a61177e9bf609921fa464cc6990478b
branch: master
author: Irit Katriel <iritkatriel at yahoo.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2020-10-19T22:27:16+01:00
summary:
bpo-38320: Clarify that expectedFailure is satisfied by either failure or error of the test. (GH-22740)
files:
M Doc/library/unittest.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
index f04ec91270eeb..51e10119d3e8d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
@@ -593,8 +593,9 @@ The following decorators and exception implement test skipping and expected fail
.. decorator:: expectedFailure
- Mark the test as an expected failure. If the test fails it will be
- considered a success. If the test passes, it will be considered a failure.
+ Mark the test as an expected failure or error. If the test fails or errors
+ it will be considered a success. If the test passes, it will be considered
+ a failure.
.. exception:: SkipTest(reason)
@@ -1967,7 +1968,7 @@ Loading and running tests
A list containing 2-tuples of :class:`TestCase` instances and strings
holding formatted tracebacks. Each tuple represents an expected failure
- of the test case.
+ or error of the test case.
.. attribute:: unexpectedSuccesses
@@ -2093,8 +2094,8 @@ Loading and running tests
.. method:: addExpectedFailure(test, err)
- Called when the test case *test* fails, but was marked with the
- :func:`expectedFailure` decorator.
+ Called when the test case *test* fails or errors, but was marked with
+ the :func:`expectedFailure` decorator.
The default implementation appends a tuple ``(test, formatted_err)`` to
the instance's :attr:`expectedFailures` attribute, where *formatted_err*
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