I’m testing an API that can raise an exception, but eventually returns a response based on other calculations, not related to the exception that is raised (it only logs the exception):

def get(self, request):
    #some code here
    try:
        #do something and create the response value
    except Exception as err:
        logger.exception(str(err))
    return Response

I tried the following to test if an exception is raised, but it didn’t work as the final return value (API’s response) doesn’t care about the exception:

with pytest.raises(RuntimeError):
    response = MyInfo.as_view(
    )(request)

I get the following:

>       with pytest.raises(RuntimeError):
E       Failed: DID NOT RAISE <class 'RuntimeError'> 

even though a RuntimeError exception is logged. I think pytest only cares about the API’s response and not an exception that has occurred inside the API.