error in TestResult.addError and TestResult.addFailure

[draghuram]

BPO	1467
Nosy	@birkenfeld

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[draghuram]

The page at
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/unittest.html#module-unittest says:

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TestResult.addError(test, err)

Called when the test case test raises an unexpected exception err is

a tuple of the form returned by sys.exc_info(): (type, value, traceback).

The default implementation appends (test, err) to the instance's

errors attribute.
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Starting from 2.2, a formatted traceback is added to the "error"
attribute instead of the actual sys.exc_info(). The same error is
present for addFailure() as well.

[birkenfeld]

Thanks, this is now fixed in the development docs (r59165).