Mock The Python

What is it?

A library that makes mocking in Python better by building on type of Python's built in mock library.

How?

Currently, just by allowing members of modules which are being patched to be patched by using references to the actual members, instead of bare strings.

Here's an example:

from mock_the_python.mock_path import at
from unittest.mock import patch

import another_module.module_under_test
from another_module.module_under_test import bacon

patch(at(another_module.module_under_test).member(bacon), return_value="mmmm, bacon")

Now you can freely rename bacon to sausage without worrying about whether or not your refactoring tools will find string references, and your tests will still pass. Groovy.

More features will be added to this library