From: Mike Jackson <michaelj@epcc.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 09:45:30 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Add assert_raises example
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Add assert_raises example
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diff --git a/testing/Writing.md b/testing/Writing.md
index e826ce4..c62098e 100755
--- a/testing/Writing.md
+++ b/testing/Writing.md
@@ -174,7 +174,14 @@ The latter requires us to check whether an exception was raised which we can do
     except ValueError:
         assert True
 
-This is like catching a runtime error. If an exception is raised then our test passes (`assert True`), else if no exception is raised, it fails.
+This is like catching a runtime error. If an exception is raised then our test passes (`assert True`), else if no exception is raised, it fails. Alternatively, we can use `assert_raises` from `nose`,
+
+    from nose.tools import assert_raises
+
+    def test_123():
+        assert_raises(ValueError, calculate_weight, 123)
+
+The assert fails if the named exception is *not* raised.
 
 One other test we could do is `calculate_weight('GATCX')` for which we can add another runtime test,