[New-bugs-announce] [issue32299] unittest.mock.patch.dict.__enter__ should return the dict

[Allen Li]

New submission from Allen Li <vianchielfaura at gmail.com>:

mock.patch.dict.__enter__ should return the patched dict/mapping object.

Currently it returns nothing (None).

This would make setting up fixtures more convenient:

 with mock.patch.dict(some.thing):
   some.thing['foo'] = 'bar'

 with mock.patch.dict(some.thing) as x:
   x['foo'] = 'bar'

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 308188
nosy: Allen Li
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: unittest.mock.patch.dict.__enter__ should return the dict
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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