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authorXtreak <tir.karthi@gmail.com>2019-03-28 21:08:43 (GMT)
committerMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2019-03-28 21:08:43 (GMT)
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bpo-36366: Return None on stopping unstarted patch object (GH-12472)
Return None after calling unittest.mock.patch.object.stop() regardless of whether the object was started. This makes the method idempotent. https://bugs.python.org/issue36366
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+Calling ``stop()`` on an unstarted or stopped :func:`unittest.mock.patch`
+object will now return `None` instead of raising :exc:`RuntimeError`,
+making the method idempotent.
+Patch byKarthikeyan Singaravelan.