From 892429b08b0ee2d252e3624951a7b9b38423f074 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:02:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix float.fromhex test to give additional information on
 failure.  This change is aimed at diagnosing issue 3633 (test_float fails on
 Solaris).

Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson
---
 Lib/test/test_float.py | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_float.py b/Lib/test/test_float.py
index 3f4998d4a4a..ab791a3a34c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_float.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_float.py
@@ -417,7 +417,13 @@ class HexFloatTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
             '0x1p0\0 0x1p0',  # embedded null byte is not end of string
             ]
         for x in invalid_inputs:
-            self.assertRaises(ValueError, fromHex, x)
+            try:
+                result = fromHex(x)
+            except ValueError:
+                pass
+            else:
+                self.fail('Expected float.fromhex(%r) to raise ValueError; '
+                          'got %r instead' % (x, result))
 
 
     def test_from_hex(self):