Improve recipes and howtos for the unittest.mock

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reviewing the unittest.mock documentation and the existing PRs #24752 and #24758 referenced in the issue. The issue is complete when the requested recipes and howtos have been improved and the documentation changes are covered by the relevant review process.

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Description

3.10 3.9 (EOL) docs type-feature
BPO 43400
Nosy @rhettinger, @miss-islington, @tirkarthi, @eppeters, @dougharris
PRs
  • python/cpython#24752
  • python/cpython#24758
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    GitHub fields:

    assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2021-03-04.16:43:58.079>
labels = ['type-feature', '3.9', '3.10', 'docs']
title = 'Improve recipes and howtos for the unittest.mock'
updated_at = <Date 2021-03-05.01:39:19.014>
user = 'https://github.com/eppeters'

    bugs.python.org fields:

    activity = <Date 2021-03-05.01:39:19.014>
actor = 'rhettinger'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Documentation']
creation = <Date 2021-03-04.16:43:58.079>
creator = 'eppeters'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 43400
keywords = ['patch']
message_count = 8.0
messages = ['388102', '388108', '388109', '388110', '388138', '388139', '388141', '388143']
nosy_count = 6.0
nosy_names = ['rhettinger', 'docs@python', 'miss-islington', 'xtreak', 'eppeters', 'dougharris']
pr_nums = ['24752', '24758']
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'patch review'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue43400'
versions = ['Python 3.9', 'Python 3.10']

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