How should I verify a log message when testing Python code under nose?

Question

I\'m trying to write a simple unit test that will verify that, under a certain condition, a class in my application will log an error via the standard logging API. I can\'t

Answer 1

The ExpectLog class implemented in tornado is a great utility:

with ExpectLog('channel', 'message regex'):
    do_it()

http://tornado.readthedocs.org/en/latest/_modules/tornado/testing.html#ExpectLog