fixes #335: document ExceptionInfo returned by pytest.raises

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Mathieu Agopian 2013-08-01 11:12:02 +02:00
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# do checks related to excinfo.type, excinfo.value, excinfo.traceback # do checks related to excinfo.type, excinfo.value, excinfo.traceback
``excinfo`` is a `py.code.ExceptionInfo`_ instance, which is a wrapper around
the actual exception raised.
.. _py.code.ExceptionInfo:
http://pylib.readthedocs.org/en/latest/code.html#py-code-exceptioninfo
If you want to write test code that works on Python 2.4 as well, If you want to write test code that works on Python 2.4 as well,
you may also use two other ways to test for an expected exception:: you may also use two other ways to test for an expected exception::