This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author Guillaume Chorn
Recipients Guillaume Chorn
Date 2016-09-30.17:54:38
SpamBayes Score -1.0
Marked as misclassified Yes
Message-id <1475258078.84.0.445986439292.issue28318@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
In-reply-to
Content
In the unittest.mock library, when a Mock object stores the calls made on it in its `mock_calls` attribute, it appears to store references to the call arguments instead of the actual values of the call arguments. In cases where call args are mutable types, this results in the undesirable behavior below:

```python
import mock

arg = ['one']

test_function(arg)

# passes
test_function.assert_has_calls([mock.call(['one'])])

arg += ['two']

test_function(arg)

# fails, even though we just verified the first call above!
test_function.assert_has_calls([
    mock.call(['one']),
    mock.call(['one','two'])
])

# passes, even though we didn't make the exact same call twice!
test_function.assert_has_calls([
    mock.call(['one', 'two']),
    mock.call(['one', 'two'])
])
```
History
Date User Action Args
2016-09-30 17:54:38Guillaume Chornsetrecipients: + Guillaume Chorn
2016-09-30 17:54:38Guillaume Chornsetmessageid: <1475258078.84.0.445986439292.issue28318@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2016-09-30 17:54:38Guillaume Chornlinkissue28318 messages
2016-09-30 17:54:38Guillaume Chorncreate