Reduce stderr noise when running tests

mysociety · Sep 8, 2016 · 3a54fa2 · 3a54fa2
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commit 3a54fa2
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diff --git a/popolo/tests/test_importer.py b/popolo/tests/test_importer.py
@@ -459,7 +459,12 @@ def test_truncation_exception(self):
         with self.assertRaisesRegexp(
                 ValidationError,
                 'Ensure this value has at most 512 characters'):
-            importer.import_from_export_json_data(data)
+            # Capture the output just to reduce noise in the test
+            # output - this would include output from
+            # show_data_on_error otherwise.
+            with capture_output() as (out, err):
+                importer.import_from_export_json_data(data)
+
 
     def test_truncation_warn(self):
         long_name = ('Albert ' * 100).strip()