[TIP] Does anyone *need* mock update from cPython in Python 2.6?

[Ian Cordasco]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Ian Cordasco
<graffatcolmingov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:51 AM, Robert Collins
> <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
>> On 9 July 2015 at 12:18, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
>>> On 9 July 2015 at 06:29, Joseph Smith <yasumoto7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> dstufft: naive question- but would you upgrade the version of mock you use?
>>>> (especially considering python2.6 is (supposedly?) EOL)
>>>>
>>>> FWIW getting these improvements into the standalone mock package would be
>>>> awesome- thanks for picking it up Robert!
>>>
>>> NP :).
>>>
>>> Its at https://github.com/testing-cabal/mock btw - i've pushed up the
>>> 3.4 fix, next push will be all the backports, then doc fixes, then a
>>> release.
>>
>> Further to that, I've just pushed 40 commits of backported joy. If
>> folk wanted to give it a spin and see if the new stuff (like unsafe,
>> or division, or not needing create etc etc etc) really is all that,
>> that would be cool.
>>
>> Tomorrow will be cleanup, cleanup docs, change maintainer details and
>> all that housekeeping plus a 1.1.0 release. So if there are any
>> wishlist items, now is the time for them :)
>
> I haven't had a chance to look into this but it appears that 1.1.x has
> broken some tests
> (http://ci.sigmavir.us/job/flake8/119/TOXENV=py27/console). You'll
> notice that's on Python 2.7. I've restricted flake8's version of mock
> to < 1.1.0 and it works fine. Hopefully I'll have some time to look
> into this today.
>
> Cheers,
> Ian

Looks like this is also affecting OpenStack:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1473369