Is it possible to import Failed properly?

[eliegoudout]

Hello,

In my testing setup, I factored some tests in a "check_this_should_fail" that contains a few pytest.raises statements. Now, I'd like to do

special_broken_behaviour = ... # created in this test
with pytest.raises(Failed):
    check_this_should_fail(special_broken_behaviour)  # Will not fail since specially broken

No, for this, I can use

from _pytest.outcomes import Failed

but it's obviously not intended.

Is it on purpose to avoid some kind of anti-pattern? Are there any other way or should I drop this idea altogether?

I don't think it's trivially an anti-pattern to wanna make pytest.raises fail sometimes.

Thanks!

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

pytest.fail.Exception

[eliegoudout]

Aaaah thanks!