I had this weird trouble running my unittest in Python: I used assertRaises, and running the unittest raised the correct exception, but the test still failed. Ok I cannot really explain it, please see the traceback for yourself:
Error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/chianti/PycharmProjects/Programming_Project/Part1and4/Part1and4Test.py", line 32, in test_non_alpha_name
self.assertRaises(RestNameContainNonAlphaError, RestaurantName(self.non_alpha_name))
File "/Users/chianti/PycharmProjects/Programming_Project/Part1and4/InputCheck.py", line 29, in __init__
raise RestNameContainNonAlphaError('There are non alphabetic characters that I can not recognize!')
RestNameContainNonAlphaError: There are non alphabetic characters that I can not recognize!
Error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/chianti/PycharmProjects/Programming_Project/Part1and4/Part1and4Test.py", line 24, in test_non_string_name
self.assertRaises(InputNotStringError, RestaurantName, self.non_string_name)
File "/Users/chianti/anaconda/lib/python2.7/unittest/case.py", line 473, in assertRaises
callableObj(*args, **kwargs)
File "/Users/chianti/PycharmProjects/Programming_Project/Part1and4/InputCheck.py", line 33, in __init__
raise InputNotStringError('Not String! The input is supposed to be a string type!')
InputNotStringError: Not String! The input is supposed to be a string type!
Why ?????????? Any ideas are appreciated !!! THANK YOU
Here is my unittest:
class RestaurantNameTests(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.non_string_name = 123
self.valid_name = 'Italian rest '
self.non_alpha_name = 'valid ** n'
def tearDown(self):
self.non_string_name = None
self.valid_name = None
self.non_alpha_name = None
def test_non_string_name(self):
with self.assertRaises(InputNotStringError):
RestaurantName(self.non_string_name)
def test_valid_name(self):
self.assertEqual(RestaurantName(self.valid_name).__str__(), 'Italian rest')
def test_non_alpha_name(self):
self.assertRaises(RestNameContainNonAlphaError, RestaurantName(self.non_alpha_name))
If you need to see the definition of RestaurantName, here it is:
class RestaurantName():
def __init__(self, input_contents):
self.name = input_contents
if IsValidString(self.name):
self.no_space_name = self.name.replace(' ', '')
if str.isalpha(self.no_space_name):
pass
else:
raise RestNameContainNonAlphaError('There are non alphabetic characters that I can not recognize!')
else:
raise InputNotStringError('Not String! The input is supposed to be a string type!')
def __repr__(self):
return 'RestaurantName(%s)' % self.name.strip()
def __str__(self):
return self.name.strip()
Thanks again
The traceback doesn't match your description of the problem (nor your code FWIW). The error you get is in test_non_alpha_name() which you didn't post but from your error message looks like:
self.assertRaises(
RestNameContainNonAlphaError,
RestaurantName(self.non_alpha_name)
)
This is not the correct way to use assertRaises(). You must pass ExpectedExceptionClass, callable, *args, **kw to assertRaises, and args and kw will be passed to your callable. IOW you want:
self.assertRaises(
RestNameContainNonAlphaError,
RestaurantName,
self.non_alpha_name
)
The reason is simple: the way you currently call it, the exception is triggered before the call to assertRaises.
As a side note:
TypeErrorValueError