Mocking iteration over file in Python

Posted on Sat 24 December 2011 in Coding • Tagged with file, mock, test, Python

Let’s say that I want to mock reading from a file using file’s iterator capability, i.e. (simplified version):

def readfile(f):
    using open(f) as fd:
        for line in fd:
            yield line

I could mock the readfile function, but then my mock would have to replicate the …


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