python 3.5: smoketest.py fails due to changed AttributeError description text

[ususdei]

File: xapian-bindings/python3/smoketest.py

The description of AttributeError on modules has been changed, e.g. from

"object 'module' has no attribute %s"

to

"module 'xapian' has no attribute %s"

This leads to smoketest.py unneccessarily failing under python 3.5. Maybe expect_exception() should be slightly less restrictive?

[Olly Betts]

We don't want to skip checking the message, as then the test would pass if we got a different AttributeError to the one we expect.

But expected_exception() could accept either a string or a regular expression for expectedmsg.

[ususdei]

That's also what I meant with "slightly less restrictive": Check against a regex or a set of keywords or something like that.

[Olly Betts]

Fixed by merging ​https://github.com/xapian/xapian/pull/76