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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"TestCase.assertRaisesString","articleBody":"# Feature or enhancement\n\n### Proposal:\n\nMore often I need to check for exact error message and do not need regular expression.\n\nFor pure convenience, this would look like.\n\n```python\ndef assertRaisesString(self, exc, string, *args, **kwargs):\n    escaped = re.escape(string)\n    return self.assertRaisesRegex(exc, f'^{escaped}$', *args, **kwds)\n```\n\nHowever, as using regular expression is overkill, could just add pure string case to `_AssertRaisesBaseContext`:\n\n```python\nclass _AssertRaisesBaseContext(_BaseTestCaseContext):\n\n    def __init__(self, expected, test_case, expected_string=None, regex=True):\n        ...\n\nclass _AssertRaisesContext(_AssertRaisesBaseContext):\n    def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, tb):\n        expected_string = self.expected_string\n        exc_string = str(exc_value)\n        if self.regex:\n            # perform regex\n        else:\n            # compare strings\n```\n\n### Has this already been discussed elsewhere?\n\nThis is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere\n\n### Links to previous discussion of this feature:\n\n_No response_\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-123023\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/dg-pb","@type":"Person","name":"dg-pb"},"datePublished":"2024-08-14T15:30:14.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":8},"url":"https://github.com/123013/cpython/issues/123013"}