[Tutor] Mocking with "mock" in unit testing

James Chapman james at uplinkzero.com
Fri Jan 17 16:43:58 CET 2014


Really!

import mock
import unittest
import pinger

It should be three lines, but somehow it got all messed up, either
through rich text formatting or copy paste.

Being a bit pedantic now about import statements which are clearly
unintentionally messed up.

- Sent in plain text.



--
James




On 17 January 2014 15:32, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 08:35:04AM -0500, eryksun wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 09:58:06AM +0000, James Chapman wrote:
> [...]
> > >> import mockimport unittestimport pinger
> > >>  class Test_Pinger(unittest.TestCase):
> > >
> > > And here you have two more SyntaxErrors: missing commas between
> > > arguments to import, and a stray space before the "class" again.
> >
> > This is also fine in the rich text version. BTW, the botched plain
> > text conversion is missing line breaks, not commas.
>
> I don't understand this. If I'm interpreting you correctly,
>
>
> import mockimport
> unittestimport
> pinger
>
>
> would not be "fine".
>
>
> --
> Steven
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