From b24c9519b401bb66508e713789fab4f569398227 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:14:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use assertRaises.

---
 Lib/test/test_ast.py | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ast.py b/Lib/test/test_ast.py
index 994e10be7d8..1674b975755 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_ast.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ast.py
@@ -275,12 +275,7 @@ class ASTHelpers_Test(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(ast.literal_eval('2j'), 2j)
         self.assertEqual(ast.literal_eval('10 + 2j'), 10 + 2j)
         self.assertEqual(ast.literal_eval('1.5 - 2j'), 1.5 - 2j)
-        try:
-            ast.literal_eval('2 + (3 + 4j)')
-        except ValueError:
-            pass
-        else:
-            self.fail('expected value error')
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, ast.literal_eval, '2 + (3 + 4j)')
 
 
 def test_main():