[TIP] Asserting behaviour of exception tracebacks

[Ben Finney]

Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au> writes:

>     class ModuleSpecificError(RuntimeError):
>         def __init__(self, orig, context):
>             self.orig = orig
>             self.context = context
> 
>         def __str__(self):
>             orig_name = orig.__class__.__name__
>             msg = (
>                 "failed during %(context)s"
>                 " (%(orig_name)s: %(orig)s)"
>                 ) % vars(self)

Clearly the construction and returning of the 'msg' in that '__str__'
method needs to be fixed. That's merely an artefact because I made the
example for this post. Hopefully its intent is clear enough to
understand the point of the rest of the post.

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Ben Finney