Merge pull request #3478 from jessica-mitchell/ticket293

Port regression test 293 to Pytests

Author: heplesser

testsuite/pytests/sli2py_regressions/test_ticket_293.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# test_ticket_293.py
+#
+# This file is part of NEST.
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2004 The NEST Initiative
+#
+# NEST is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# NEST is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with NEST.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+import nest
+import pytest
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif_missing_threads
+def test_ticket_293():
+    """
+    Regression test for Ticket #293.
+
+    This test verifies that NEST handles unknown keys in the status dictionary
+    gracefully when the number of threads is changed. It ensures that an error
+    is raised for the unknown key, but NEST does not crash.
+
+    Author: Hans E Plesser, 2008-10-20
+    """
+
+    with pytest.raises(Exception):
+        nest.SetKernelStatus({"local_num_threads": 2, "foo": 5})