unittest.mock does not wrap dunder methods (getitem etc)

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#69,783 opened on Nov 10, 2015 12 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 30/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: python
Domain: testing-qa

Research direction

Start with the unittest.mock behavior described in the issue and review test-mock-wraps-dict.py, the test file linked in the report. Check the existing pull requests #16029 and #19734 before proceeding. Done means dunder methods such as getitem are wrapped as expected and the relevant tests pass.

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Description

3.9 (EOL) stdlib type-bug

BPO	25597
Nosy	@rbtcollins, @cjw296, @bitdancer, @voidspace, @phmc, @lisroach, @tonybaloney, @mariocj89, @tirkarthi, @akulakov
PRs	python/cpython#16029 python/cpython#19734
Files	test-mock-wraps-dict.py

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assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2015-11-10.17:02:38.914>
labels = ['type-bug', 'library', '3.9']
title = 'unittest.mock does not wrap dunder methods (__getitem__ etc)'
updated_at = <Date 2021-08-28.03:05:05.247>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/DarraghBailey'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2021-08-28.03:05:05.247>
actor = 'andrei.avk'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2015-11-10.17:02:38.914>
creator = 'Darragh Bailey'
dependencies = []
files = ['41001']
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 25597
keywords = ['patch']
message_count = 12.0
messages = ['254453', '254466', '261835', '341615', '351469', '351824', '352124', '352125', '360739', '367559', '367623', '400457']
nosy_count = 11.0
nosy_names = ['rbcollins', 'cjw296', 'r.david.murray', 'michael.foord', 'pconnell', 'Darragh Bailey', 'lisroach', 'anthonypjshaw', 'mariocj89', 'xtreak', 'andrei.avk']
pr_nums = ['16029', '19734']
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = None
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue25597'
versions = ['Python 3.9']

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