Ah, well... I agree mock.ANY sounds cool :-)
Perhaps it could be mentioned in the docs for assert_etc.? Otherwise you only learn about it if you are masochistic enough to read the doc till the end :-)

> you can pull the arguments out for individual assertions using
> some_mock.call_args.

Yeah, but it's cumbersome and it boils down to doing the matching by hand, while assert_called_something already does it.