import xml.etree.ElementTree import unittest import sys etree = xml.etree.ElementTree class TestET(unittest.TestCase): def test_feed_parser_error_position(self): ParseError = etree.ParseError parser = etree.XMLParser() try: parser.close() except ParseError: e = sys.exc_info()[1] self.assertNotEqual(None, e.code) self.assertNotEqual(0, e.code) self.assertTrue(isinstance(e.position, tuple)) self.assertTrue(e.position >= (0, 0)) unittest.main()