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| author | Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com> | 2015-01-07 19:15:02 (GMT) |
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| committer | Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com> | 2015-01-07 19:15:02 (GMT) |
| commit | 283f1aa881af1c887fa90af914b51577c1b34461 (patch) | |
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Issue #20487: Clarify meaning of "side effect" in the magic mock documentation.
Patch by A.M. Kuchling.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst | 7 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst index f92353c..b242438 100644 --- a/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst +++ b/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst @@ -1678,9 +1678,10 @@ For example: >>> object() in mock False -The two equality method, :meth:`__eq__` and :meth:`__ne__`, are special. -They do the default equality comparison on identity, using a side -effect, unless you change their return value to return something else: +The two equality methods, :meth:`__eq__` and :meth:`__ne__`, are special. +They do the default equality comparison on identity, using the +:attr:`~Mock.side_effect` attribute, unless you change their return value to +return something else:: >>> MagicMock() == 3 False |