[BangPypers] What is the best Python Mock library

[Siddharta]

Couple of years ago I wrote silvermock - 
http://github.com/silverstripe/silvermock

It uses an expectation style like so:

mock = MockObject("mock class", [
ShouldBeCalled("__init__"),
ShouldBeCalled("function").with_args((1,2))
])
obj = mock()
obj.function(1,2)
mock._instance.verify()

You can see more usage examples in the MockObjectTest suite.

There is also

minimock - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MiniMock
Python Mocker - http://labix.org/mocker

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Siddharta Govindaraj

On 27-Jan-10 6:37 PM, Diptanu Choudhury wrote:
> Yes, and also the unit tests tend to become more verbose with Mox.
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Noufal Ibrahim<noufal at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Diptanu Choudhury
>> <admin.nitjece at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We ran into a discussion this afternoon about the various Python Mocking
>>> Libraries. The popular one out there seems to be Mox(according to
>>> my colleagues), though I like Mock(python-mock).
>>>
>>> I would like to hear the views of the python veterans of this list about
>>>        
>> the
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>>> popular mocking libraries! :-)
>>>        
>> I recently needed one and looked through a few. I found the whole
>> record/replay style a little weird and preferred a post mortem
>> approach. With that in mind, I found
>> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/ quite nice and it's what I
>> use.
>>
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