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  r65958 | mark.dickinson | 2008-08-21 21:02:24 +0100 (Thu, 21 Aug 2008) | 5 lines

  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
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Lib/test/test_float.py

@@ -448,7 +448,13 @@ 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):