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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.
mock is now part of the Python standard library, available as unittest.mock <https://docs.python.org/dev/library/unittest.mock.html>
_ in Python 3.3
onwards.
This package contains a rolling backport of the standard library mock code compatible with Python 3.6 and up.
Please see the standard library documentation for more details.
:Homepage: Mock Homepage
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:Download: Mock on PyPI
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:Documentation: Python Docs
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:License: BSD License
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:Support: Mailing list (testing-in-python@lists.idyll.org) <http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python>
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:Code: GitHub <https://github.com/testing-cabal/mock>
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:Issue tracker: GitHub Issues <https://github.com/testing-cabal/mock/issues>
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:Build status:
|CircleCI|_ |Docs|_
.. |CircleCI| image:: https://circleci.com/gh/testing-cabal/mock/tree/master.svg?style=shield
.. _CircleCI: https://circleci.com/gh/testing-cabal/mock/tree/master
.. |Docs| image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/mock/badge/?version=latest
.. _Docs: http://mock.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
.. _Mock Homepage: http://mock.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ .. _BSD License: https://github.com/testing-cabal/mock/blob/master/LICENSE.txt .. _Python Docs: https://docs.python.org/dev/library/unittest.mock.html .. _mock on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/mock/
FAQs
Rolling backport of unittest.mock for all Pythons
We found that mock demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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