[TIP] Mocking import functions

[Mateusz Łoskot]

On 7 February 2014 16:07, David Stanek <dstanek at dstanek.com> wrote:
> Instead of mock.patch('miners.tasks_utils.mechanize_url') you should try
> mock.patch('twitter_profile.mechanize_url').

AFAIU, the following can be used as an alternative, can't it?

with mock.patch.dict('sys.modules', {'miners': mock.Mock()}):
    miners.tasks_utils.mechanize_url.return_value =  content_file.read()
    ...

Any major differences between the two approaches?

Best regards,
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Mateusz  Łoskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net