Brief Python Nose/Mock Snipppet

I've been using Nose and Mock recently for unit and integration testing. It's been quite fun.

Remember that @patch sets the namespace of the module you provide so that the test function finds the @patch setted object first. This allows you to test with Mock objects and is called monkey patching.

Here's a quick example,


run with debugging by typing,

python workter_test.py --pdb