patching a class yields "AttributeError: Mock object has no attribute" when accessing instance attributes

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patching a class yields "AttributeError: Mock object has no attribute" when accessing instance attributes

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Chapters
00:00 Question
03:45 Accepted answer (Score 73)
05:29 Answer 2 (Score 0)
05:58 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3170...

Question links:
[http://mock.readthedocs.org/en/latest/he...]: http://mock.readthedocs.org/en/latest/he...
[http://mock.readthedocs.org/en/latest/pa...]: http://mock.readthedocs.org/en/latest/pa...

Accepted answer links:
[documentation you read]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/unitte...

Answer 2 links:
[https://docs.python.org/3/library/unitte...]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/unitte...

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#python #unittesting #attributes #mocking #pythonunittest

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