Mario Corchero <marioc...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I've always understood instance as a way to say "I am passing this class but I
want to force the autospec on the instance"
For example, given
```
class X:
def __init__(self):
raise
```
You can do `unittest.mock.create_autospec(X, instance=True)` to set a spec of
the instance rather than the class.
Also quite often you do autospec on a class but you want the interface of the
instance. This parameter allows you to do so.
Basically, `unittest.mock.create_autospec(X, instance=True)` will produce a non
callable mock.
I think the docs are correct, maybe misleading
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