Can you check that an exception is thrown with doctest in Python?
Question
Is it possible to write a doctest unit test that will check that an exception is raised?
For example, if I have a function foo(x)
that is supposed to raise an exception if x<0
, how would I write the doctest for that?
Solution
Yes. You can do it. The doctest module documentation and Wikipedia has an example of it.
>>> x
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
NameError: name 'x' is not defined
OTHER TIPS
>>> import math
>>> math.log(-2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValueError: math domain error
ellipsis flag # doctest: +ELLIPSIS is not required to use ... in Traceback doctest
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