Niv Ben-David added the comment:
I copied the code in place of the old mock_open in unittest/mock.py.
Regarding the VFS issue, I think that it really depends on what you're trying
to test. If you only care about "side effects" on the file system, the VFS way
it much better and
Niv Ben-David added the comment:
Regarding the documentation changes, my version simply mocks `open` more
"closely", so for the most part I can't think of any changes to the
documentation. I've added a bit about the mock object acting as a map of file
names to mock o
New submission from Niv Ben-David:
The unittest.mock module defines a mock_open utility to mock the builtin open
function.
During a recent project I found I needed something more. Specifically, mocking
different files at the same time, better mocking for operations (like seek,
readlines, etc
