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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2015-12-22 18:19:29 -0500
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2015-12-23 07:29:06 -0500
commit77f50c9cfc8b33bf86394816cde183e656ba28cd (patch)
treeafd5af052041824d2a8189dd0b623f0e5a71ae74 /docs/internals/contributing/writing-code
parent0224f1cb042cc14545369b230cf7036af6c296ab (diff)
Fixed #25948 -- Added guidelines for SimpleTestCase.assertRaisesMessage() usage.
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diff --git a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/coding-style.txt b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/coding-style.txt
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--- a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/coding-style.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/coding-style.txt
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ Python style
"""
...
+* In tests, use :meth:`~django.test.SimpleTestCase.assertRaisesMessage` instead
+ of :meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertRaises` so you can check the exception
+ message. Use :meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertRaisesRegex`
+ (``six.assertRaisesRegex()`` as long as we support Python 2) only if you need
+ to use regular expression matching.
+
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