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 Mock - Mocking and Testing Library
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.. include:: ../README.rst

.. module:: mock
   :synopsis: Mock object and testing library.

.. index:: introduction

.. toctree::
   :hidden:

   changelog

Python Version Compatibility
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

* Version 1.0.1 is the last version compatible with Python < 2.6.

* Version 1.3.0 is the last version compatible with Python 3.2.

* Version 2.0.0 is the last version compatible with Python 2.6.

* Version 2.0.0 is the last version offering official Jython support.

.. index:: installing
.. _installing:

Installing
++++++++++

.. index:: repository
.. index:: git

You can checkout the latest development version from GitHub
repository with the following command:

    ``git clone https://github.com/testing-cabal/mock.git``


.. index:: pip

You can install mock with pip:

    | ``pip install -U mock``

.. index:: bug reports

Bug Reports
+++++++++++

Issues with the backport process, such as compatibility with a particular
Python, should be reported to the `bug tracker
<https://github.com/testing-cabal/mock/issues>`_. Feature requests and issues
with Mock functionality should be reported to the `Python bug tracker
<https://bugs.python.org>`_.

.. index:: python changes

Python Changes
++++++++++++++

See the :doc:`change log <changelog>`.

.. index:: maintainer notes

Maintainer Notes
++++++++++++++++

Development
-----------

Checkout from git (see :ref:`installing`) and submit pull requests.

Committers can just push as desired: since all semantic development takes
place in cPython, the backport process is as lightweight as we can make it.

mock is CI tested using Travis-CI on Python versions 2.7, 3.4,
3.5, 3.6, nightly Python 3 builds, pypy, pypy3.

Releasing
---------

NB: please use semver. Bump the major component on API breaks, minor on all
non-bugfix changes, patch on bugfix only changes.

1. Run ``release.py [major|minor|bugfix]`` which will roll out new
   NEWS items, bump the version number and create a commit for the release.

2. Review that commit, feel free to amend it if you want to note anything
   manually in ``CHANGELOG.rst``.

3. Push to the ``master`` branch on
   https://github.com/testing-cabal/mock.git and the Circle CI
   automation will take care of pushing releases to PyPI and
   creating a tag.

Backporting rules
-----------------

- ``isinstance`` checks in cPython to ``type`` need to check ``ClassTypes``.
  Code calling ``obj.isidentifier`` needs to change to ``_isidentifier(obj)``.

- f-strings need to be rewritten using some other string substitution.

- ``assertRaisesRegex`` needs to be ``assertRaisesRegexp`` for Python 2.

- If test code won't compile on a particular version of Python, move it to
  a matching ``_py{version}.py`` file. If ``{version}`` isn't 3, adjust
  ``conftest.py``.

- If code such as this causes coverage checking to drop below 100%:

  .. code-block:: python

      def will_never_be_called():
          pass

  It should be adjusted to the following pattern, preferably upstream,
  so that the ``.coveragerc`` in this repo knows to ignore it:

  .. code-block:: python

      def will_never_be_called(): pass

Backporting process
-------------------

1. Clone cpython and mock into the same directory, eg:

   .. code-block:: bash

       mkdir vcs
       cd vcs
       git clone https://github.com/python/cpython.git
       git clone https://github.com/testing-cabal/mock.git

   Make sure they both on master and up to date!

2. Create a branch in your ``mock`` clone and switch to it.

3. Make sure you build a suitable virtualenv for Mock development
   and activate it. For backporting, this should use Python 3.7+.

4. Run ``backport.py``:

   .. code-block:: bash

       cd vcs/mock
       python backport.py

   This will find the next cpython patch that needs to be applied, munge it
   and attempt to apply it with ``git am``.

   If it succeeds, run the tests and/or push your branch up to a fork and
   do a pull request into the master branch of the main repo to kick off
   the continuous integration tests.

   If it fails, you'll have to manually work with what ``git status`` shows
   to get the patch committed.

   If it turns out that there's nothing that should be applied from the failed commit,
   run ``python backport.py --skip-current``, maybe with ``--skip-reason``.

   If you have to make changes, please do a ``git commit --amend`` and add notes
   about what needed doing below the ``Signed-off-by`` block.

   If you have to make changes because tests fail with an applied patch, please
   make those changes in a followup commit and take note of the "Backporting rules"
   above.

5. Rinse and repeat until ``backport.py`` reports no more patches need applying.

6. If ``backport.py`` has updated ``lastsync.txt``, now would be a good time
   to commit that change.