PyCon 2011: Testing with mock

Michael Foord mock is a Python testing library. It has the goal of making mocking in tests brain dead simple! mock provides the Mock class and the patch decorator for safely patching out the objects you are mocking in your tests. This talk will cover standard mocking patterns. We'll also look at some of the newer features in the latest release, including support for mocking magic methods.

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