unittest.mock

unittest.mock is a library for testing in Python. It allows you to replace parts of your system under test with mock objects and make assertions about how they have been used.

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AsyncMock: Enhance :class:`Mock` with features allowing to mock an async function.

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call: call() is a helper object for making simpler assertions, for comparing with call_args, call_args_list, mock_calls and method_calls.
create_autospec: Create a mock object using another object as a spec.

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DEFAULT: The DEFAULT object is a pre-created sentinel (actually sentinel.DEFAULT).

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MagicMock: MagicMock is a subclass of Mock with default implementations of most of the magic methods.
Mock: Create a new `Mock` object.
mock_open: A helper function to create a mock to replace the use of `open`.

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NonCallableMagicMock: A version of `MagicMock` that isn't callable.
NonCallableMock: A non-callable version of `Mock`

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patch: `patch` acts as a function decorator, class decorator or a context manager.
PropertyMock: A mock intended to be used as a property, or other descriptor, on a class.

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seal: Disable the automatic generation of child mocks.
sentinel: The sentinel object provides a convenient way of providing unique objects for your tests.

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ThreadingMock: A mock that can be used to wait until on calls happening in a different thread.

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