Short-term fix for bug #2671682.

Make tests a little more parallel to trunk version.

Add nose.collector as test_suite

MySQLdb/MySQLdb/connections.py

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def defaulterrorhandler(connection, cursor, errorclass, errorvalue):
         connection.messages.append(error)
     del cursor
     del connection
-    raise errorclass(errorvalue)
+    raise errorclass, errorvalue
 
 
 class Connection(_mysql.connection):

MySQLdb/MySQLdb/cursors.py

@@ -212,10 +212,8 @@ class BaseCursor(object):
         except TypeError, msg:
             if msg.args[0] in ("not enough arguments for format string",
                                "not all arguments converted"):
-                self.messages.append((ProgrammingError, msg.args[0]))
                 self.errorhandler(self, ProgrammingError, msg.args[0])
             else:
-                self.messages.append((TypeError, msg))
                 self.errorhandler(self, TypeError, msg)
         except:
             from sys import exc_info

MySQLdb/metadata.cfg

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [metadata]
-version: 1.2.3
+version: 1.2.3b1
 version_info: (1,2,3,'beta',1)
 description: Python interface to MySQL
 long_description: 
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ long_description:
         \n
         - Thread-friendliness (threads will not block each other) 
         \n
-        MySQL-3.23 through 5.0 and Python-2.3 through 2.5 are currently
-        supported.
+        MySQL-3.23 through 5.0 and Python-2.3 through 2.6 are currently
+        supported. Python-3.0 will be supported in a future release.
         \n
         MySQLdb is `Free Software`_.
         \n

MySQLdb/setup.cfg

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+[test]
+test_suite = nose.collector
+
 [build_ext]
 ## Only uncomment/set these if the default configuration doesn't work
 ## Also see http://docs.python.org/dist/setup-config.html

MySQLdb/test_MySQLdb_capabilities.py

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-import test_capabilities
+import capabilities
 import unittest
 import MySQLdb
 import warnings
 
 warnings.filterwarnings('error')
 
-class test_MySQLdb(test_capabilities.DatabaseTest):
+class test_MySQLdb(capabilities.DatabaseTest):
 
     db_module = MySQLdb
     connect_args = ()
@@ -72,6 +72,14 @@ class test_MySQLdb(test_capabilities.DatabaseTest):
         self.check_data_integrity(
             ('col1 char(1)','col2 char(1)'),
             generator)
+    
+    def test_bug_2671682(self):
+        from MySQLdb.constants import ER
+        try:
+            self.cursor.execute("describe some_non_existent_table");
+        except self.connection.ProgrammingError, msg:
+            self.failUnless(msg[0] == ER.NO_SUCH_TABLE)
+            
         
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     if test_MySQLdb.leak_test: