def get_error_string(self, e):
"""Get the string showing how 'e' would be formatted in test output.
This is a little bit hacky, since it's designed to give consistent
output regardless of Python version.
In testtools, TestResult._exc_info_to_unicode is the point of dispatch
between various different implementations of methods that format
exceptions, so that's what we have to call. However, that method cares
about stack traces and formats the exception class. We don't care
about either of these, so we take its output and parse it a little.
"""
error = TracebackContent((e.__class__, e, None), self).as_text()
# We aren't at all interested in the traceback.
if error.startswith('Traceback (most recent call last):\n'):
lines = error.splitlines(True)[1:]
for i, line in enumerate(lines):
if not line.startswith(' '):
break
error = ''.join(lines[i:])
# We aren't interested in how the exception type is formatted.
exc_class, error = error.split(': ', 1)
return error
def get_error_string(self, e):
"""Get the string showing how 'e' would be formatted in test output.
This is a little bit hacky, since it's designed to give consistent
output regardless of Python version.
In testtools, TestResult._exc_info_to_unicode is the point of dispatch
between various different implementations of methods that format
exceptions, so that's what we have to call. However, that method cares
about stack traces and formats the exception class. We don't care
about either of these, so we take its output and parse it a little.
"""
error = TracebackContent((e.__class__, e, None), self).as_text()
# We aren't at all interested in the traceback.
if error.startswith('Traceback (most recent call last):\n'):
lines = error.splitlines(True)[1:]
for i, line in enumerate(lines):
if not line.startswith(' '):
break
error = ''.join(lines[i:])
# We aren't interested in how the exception type is formatted.
exc_class, error = error.split(': ', 1)
return error
