<div dir="ltr">Thanks Very Much Paul.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Paul Moore <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:p.f.moore@gmail.com" target="_blank">p.f.moore@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 25 August 2016 at 14:55, Sijo Jose &lt;<a href="mailto:mailtosijojose@gmail.com">mailtosijojose@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; I&#39;ve the following code in the __init__.py file<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;     from time import sleep<br>
&gt;     from functools import wraps<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;     def multi_try(func):<br>
&gt;         @wraps(func)<br>
&gt;         def inner(*args, **kwargs):<br>
&gt;             count = 0<br>
&gt;             while count &lt; 5:<br>
&gt;                 resp = func(*args, **kwargs)<br>
&gt;                 if resp.status_code in [200, 201]:<br>
&gt;                     return resp<br>
&gt;                 sleep(1)<br>
&gt;                 count += 1<br>
&gt;         return inner<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; While writing tests for the above decorator I&#39;m not able to patch the the<br>
&gt; *time.sleep* properly.<br>
<br>
</span>The code here uses &quot;sleep&quot; (a module variable in your module) not<br>
&quot;time.sleep&quot;. So you need to patch &quot;mymodule.sleep&quot; rather than<br>
&quot;time.sleep&quot;, or do &quot;import time&quot; and use &quot;time.sleep&quot; in your<br>
__init__.py.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Paul<br>
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