226: pytest-mock : Mocking in pytest

pytest-mock is currently the #3 pytest plugin. pytest-mock is a wrapper around unittest.mock. In this episode: Why the pytest-mock plugin is awesome What is mocking, patching, and monkey patching What, if any, is the difference between mock, fake, spy, stub. Why we might need these in testing Some history of mock in Python and how mock became unittest.mock From unittest.mock patch.object patch.object with autospec using these as context managers pytest-mock: The mocker fixture Cleanup in teardown Using mocker.patch, mocker.spy, and mocker.stub Why it's awesome and why you might want to use it over straight unittest.mock Links: top pytest plugins list pytest-mock documentation unittest.mock Podcast episode discussing unittest.mock with Michael Foord monkeypatch