TST : known-fail rcparam exceptions tests

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit d8fb74576ffb · 2014-10-10T15:16:33.000-04:00
Added known-fail to tests that expect rcparam __init__ and
update to raise exceptions on invalid input.
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_rcparams.py b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_rcparams.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 import matplotlib as mpl
 from matplotlib.tests import assert_str_equal
-from matplotlib.testing.decorators import cleanup
+from matplotlib.testing.decorators import cleanup, knownfailureif
 from nose.tools import assert_true, assert_raises, assert_equal
 import nose
 from itertools import chain
@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ def test_RcParams_class():
     assert ['font.family'] == list(six.iterkeys(rc.find_all('family')))
 
 
+# remove know failure + warnings after merging to master
+@knownfailureif(not (sys.version_info[:2] < (2, 7)))
 def test_rcparams_update():
     if sys.version_info[:2] < (2, 7):
         raise nose.SkipTest("assert_raises as context manager "
@@ -112,15 +114,26 @@ def test_rcparams_update():
     bad_dict = {'figure.figsize': (3.5, 42, 1)}
     # make sure validation happens on input
     with assert_raises(ValueError):
-        rc.update(bad_dict)
+
+        with warnings.catch_warnings():
+            warnings.filterwarnings('ignore',
+                                message='.*(validate)',
+                                category=UserWarning)
+            rc.update(bad_dict)
 
 
+# remove know failure + warnings after merging to master
+@knownfailureif(not (sys.version_info[:2] < (2, 7)))
 def test_rcparams_init():
     if sys.version_info[:2] < (2, 7):
         raise nose.SkipTest("assert_raises as context manager "
                             "not supported with Python < 2.7")
     with assert_raises(ValueError):
-        mpl.RcParams({'figure.figsize': (3.5, 42, 1)})
+        with warnings.catch_warnings():
+            warnings.filterwarnings('ignore',
+                                message='.*(validate)',
+                                category=UserWarning)
+            mpl.RcParams({'figure.figsize': (3.5, 42, 1)})
 
 
 @cleanup
