Problem with using unittest module

[Peter Otten]

Olivier Langlois wrote:

> I have the following statement in my test :
> 
> self.assertRaises(CDKeyException, ValidationObject.Validate,
> 1001,'NonExistantKey')
> 
> and the test fails as if assertRaises was not catching the thrown
> exception:
> 
> ======================================================================
> ERROR: test (DBLookupValidationTests.DBLookupValidationTests)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "C
\Dev\jade.r12sp\src\RVPackages\CDKey\Server\DBLookupValidationTests.py",
> line 64, in test
>     self.assertRaises(CDKeyException, ValidationObject.Validate,
> 1001,'NonExistantKey')
>   File "C:\tools\Python\lib\unittest.py", line 320, in failUnlessRaises
>     callableObj(*args, **kwargs)
>   File
> "C
\Dev\jade.r12sp\src/Services/local/Home\Scripts/system\CDKey\DBLookupValidation.py",
> line 69, in Validate
>     raise CDKeyException, self.logger.error(e) CDKeyException
> 
> Any idea what is happening?

Just a guess: you might have defined a CDKeyException twice...

Peter