[TIP] removing attributes and dictionary keys using mock.patch

[Julian Berman]

Why not as a separate function? mock.patch(.object) are basically
equivalents of setattr, so if someone wants a delattr, I'd expect it as a
separate thing personally.

-Julian
On Dec 5, 2014 11:55 AM, "Chris Withers" <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm excited to see how far mock.patch has come, mainly as I'm hoping I can
> deprecate testfixtures.Replacer as a result ;-)
>
> The only think it looks like Mock can't currently do is remove attributes
> or dictionary items:
>
> https://pythonhosted.org/testfixtures/mocking.html#
> removing-attributes-and-dictionary-items
>
> Michael, would you be up for me adding that to Mock or is it a non-starter?
>
> I'd be happy to approach using either a delete=True option to patch() and
> patch.dict() (I don't really understand what patch.object does, so can't
> comment...) or, alternatively, a not_there or deleted marker object like I
> did in testfixtures.
>
> Lemme know your thoughts...
>
> Chris
>
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