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| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2017-01-11 18:17:34 (GMT) |
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| committer | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2017-01-11 18:17:34 (GMT) |
| commit | 3159b33a956141c209113c4be99fe82b60024dd1 (patch) | |
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| parent | 87006a3d4a6c7616ab885ae697ae60a2f62e2d7a (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst index 3cc22fd..c6d0ec9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst +++ b/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst @@ -1831,6 +1831,9 @@ sentinel the same attribute will always return the same object. The objects returned have a sensible repr so that test failure messages are readable. + The ``sentinel`` attributes don't preserve their identity when they are + :mod:`copied <copy>` or :mod:`pickled <pickle>`. + Sometimes when testing you need to test that a specific object is passed as an argument to another method, or returned. It can be common to create named sentinel objects to test this. :data:`sentinel` provides a convenient way of |