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-rw-r--r--Lib/unittest/mock.py5
-rw-r--r--Lib/unittest/test/testmock/testmock.py2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/unittest/mock.py b/Lib/unittest/mock.py
index 4db1bac..d43ea9e 100644
--- a/Lib/unittest/mock.py
+++ b/Lib/unittest/mock.py
@@ -632,8 +632,9 @@ class NonCallableMock(Base):
raise AttributeError(name)
if not self._mock_unsafe:
if name.startswith(('assert', 'assret', 'asert', 'aseert', 'assrt')):
- raise AttributeError("Attributes cannot start with 'assert' "
- "or its misspellings")
+ raise AttributeError(
+ f"{name} is not a valid assertion. Use a spec "
+ f"for the mock if {name} is meant to be an attribute.")
result = self._mock_children.get(name)
if result is _deleted:
diff --git a/Lib/unittest/test/testmock/testmock.py b/Lib/unittest/test/testmock/testmock.py
index dfcf1ef..016905c 100644
--- a/Lib/unittest/test/testmock/testmock.py
+++ b/Lib/unittest/test/testmock/testmock.py
@@ -1598,7 +1598,7 @@ class MockTest(unittest.TestCase):
#Issue21238
def test_mock_unsafe(self):
m = Mock()
- msg = "Attributes cannot start with 'assert' or its misspellings"
+ msg = "is not a valid assertion. Use a spec for the mock"
with self.assertRaisesRegex(AttributeError, msg):
m.assert_foo_call()
with self.assertRaisesRegex(AttributeError, msg):