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EasyMock for python ?

Ben Finney bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Fri Oct 12 05:39:05 EDT 2007 
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"Simon Brunning" <simon at brunningonline.net> writes:

> On 10/12/07, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > This means that the Mock object automatically supports any number
> > of attributes and methods by any reasonable names; the only setup
> > needed beyond creating the instance is to seed it with anything
> > you *don't* want returned as a Mock.
> 
> Now *that* is what the OP was talking about - that's not a Mock,
> that's a Stub. See <http://tinyurl.com/26hfjd>.

Because the minimock.Mock instance is instrumented to emit a message
any time one of its attributes is called, that output becomes the
playback — which then, using doctest, can be compared against the
*expected* sequence of method calls.

That seems like it's a Mock to me: intended to assert that a specific
sequence of method calls with specific arguments was made on the mock
instance.

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