[TIP] create_autospec not as good as mocksignature

[Michael Foord]

On 5 Feb 2013, at 15:23, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> 
> I see mocksignature is no more, which is a shame when you use getargspec:
> 
> >>> from inspect import getargspec
> >>> from mock import create_autospec
> >>> def myfunc(x, y): pass
> ...
> >>> getargspec(myfunc)
> ArgSpec(args=['x', 'y'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=None)
> >>> getargspec(create_autospec(myfunc))
> ArgSpec(args=[], varargs='args', keywords='kwargs', defaults=None)
> 
> That can be surprisingly annoying ;-)
> 
> mocksignature gets it right:
> 
> >>> from mock import mocksignature
> >>> getargspec(mocksignature(myfunc))
> ArgSpec(args=['x', 'y'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=None)
> 
> Any chance create_autospec could be fixed or mocksignature re-instated?

File an issue about it. 

Michael

> 
> cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
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