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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/unittest/mock.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/unittest/mock.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/unittest/mock.py b/Lib/unittest/mock.py index c9194fff43..c26b367a4d 100644 --- a/Lib/unittest/mock.py +++ b/Lib/unittest/mock.py @@ -1631,8 +1631,9 @@ def patch( is patched with a `new` object. When the function/with statement exits the patch is undone. - If `new` is omitted, then the target is replaced with a - `MagicMock`. If `patch` is used as a decorator and `new` is + If `new` is omitted, then the target is replaced with an + `AsyncMock if the patched object is an async function or a + `MagicMock` otherwise. If `patch` is used as a decorator and `new` is omitted, the created mock is passed in as an extra argument to the decorated function. If `patch` is used as a context manager the created mock is returned by the context manager. @@ -1650,8 +1651,8 @@ def patch( patch to pass in the object being mocked as the spec/spec_set object. `new_callable` allows you to specify a different class, or callable object, - that will be called to create the `new` object. By default `MagicMock` is - used. + that will be called to create the `new` object. By default `AsyncMock` is + used for async functions and `MagicMock` for the rest. A more powerful form of `spec` is `autospec`. If you set `autospec=True` then the mock will be created with a spec from the object being replaced. |