How to properly use unit-testing’s assertRaises() with NoneType objects? [duplicate]

June 4, 2022 by IT Nursery

I did a simple test case:

def setUp(self):

  self.testListNone = None

def testListSlicing(self):

  self.assertRaises(TypeError, self.testListNone[:1])

and I am expecting test to pass, but I am getting exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):

    self.assertRaises(TypeError, self.testListNone[:1])

TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable

I thought that assertRaises will pass since TypeError exception will
be raised?

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