From 2d780237d95cd3d95401f52be2edeac8b458eb68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 14:24:49 -0700 Subject: bpo-28146: Fix a confusing error message in str.format() (GH-24213) Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:pitrou (cherry picked from commit 4aeee0b47b3a2b604bbac37040320ffc88c291f2) Co-authored-by: Irit Katriel --- Lib/test/test_unicode.py | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Lib/test/test_unicode.py') diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py index 0e6cbb61b2..5db7a9b078 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py @@ -1231,8 +1231,11 @@ class UnicodeTest(string_tests.CommonTest, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) # string format spec errors - self.assertRaises(ValueError, "{0:-s}".format, '') - self.assertRaises(ValueError, format, "", "-") + sign_msg = "Sign not allowed in string format specifier" + self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, sign_msg, "{0:-s}".format, '') + self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, sign_msg, format, "", "-") + space_msg = "Space not allowed in string format specifier" + self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, space_msg, "{: }".format, '') self.assertRaises(ValueError, "{0:=s}".format, '') # Alternate formatting is not supported -- cgit v1.2.1