diff --git a/doc/en/example/parametrize.rst b/doc/en/example/parametrize.rst index f771e5da4..4ea6f6e65 100644 --- a/doc/en/example/parametrize.rst +++ b/doc/en/example/parametrize.rst @@ -657,13 +657,16 @@ Use :func:`pytest.raises` with the :ref:`pytest.mark.parametrize ref` decorator to write parametrized tests in which some tests raise exceptions and others do not. -It may be helpful to use ``nullcontext`` as a complement to ``raises``. +``contextlib.nullcontext`` can be used to test cases that are not expected to +raise exceptions but that should result in some value. The value is given as the +``enter_result`` parameter, which will be available as the ``with`` statement’s +target (``e`` in the example below). For example: .. code-block:: python - from contextlib import nullcontext as does_not_raise + from contextlib import nullcontext import pytest @@ -671,16 +674,17 @@ For example: @pytest.mark.parametrize( "example_input,expectation", [ - (3, does_not_raise()), - (2, does_not_raise()), - (1, does_not_raise()), + (3, nullcontext(2)), + (2, nullcontext(3)), + (1, nullcontext(6)), (0, pytest.raises(ZeroDivisionError)), ], ) def test_division(example_input, expectation): """Test how much I know division.""" - with expectation: - assert (6 / example_input) is not None + with expectation as e: + assert (6 / example_input) == e -In the example above, the first three test cases should run unexceptionally, -while the fourth should raise ``ZeroDivisionError``. +In the example above, the first three test cases should run without any +exceptions, while the fourth should raise a``ZeroDivisionError`` exception, +which is expected by pytest.