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authorDominic H <dom@dominic.sk>2024-07-15 07:14:17 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2024-07-15 07:14:17 (GMT)
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gh-117765: Improve documentation for `mocker.patch.dict` (#121755)
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diff --git a/Lib/unittest/mock.py b/Lib/unittest/mock.py
index d50535d..2bbbcf4 100644
--- a/Lib/unittest/mock.py
+++ b/Lib/unittest/mock.py
@@ -1829,7 +1829,8 @@ def patch(
class _patch_dict(object):
"""
Patch a dictionary, or dictionary like object, and restore the dictionary
- to its original state after the test.
+ to its original state after the test, where the restored dictionary is
+ a copy of the dictionary as it was before the test.
`in_dict` can be a dictionary or a mapping like container. If it is a
mapping then it must at least support getting, setting and deleting items