[issue39222] unittest.mock.Mock.parent is broken or undocumented

Mario Corchero added the comment: > My suggestion would be to add `parent` to the docs @xtreak links to as a way > to resolve this issue. +1, we should probably add it on the docs of the constructor here https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.mock.html#unittest.mock.Mock as it is done f

[issue39222] unittest.mock.Mock.parent is broken or undocumented

Chris Withers added the comment: Ah right. Well, it's called `parent` in the __init__ as that's what the attribute used to be called. My suggestion would be to add `parent` to the docs @xtreak links to as a way to resolve this issue. -- ___ Pyth

[issue39222] unittest.mock.Mock.parent is broken or undocumented

Mario Corchero added the comment: If you refer to https://bugs.python.org/issue35357, this issue refers to `parent` at the time of creation of the mock. In the init it is still referenced as "parent". The question is whether we want to also mangle "parent" in the __init__, as it seems it is

[issue39222] unittest.mock.Mock.parent is broken or undocumented

Chris Withers added the comment: I thought we'd already changed this to _mock_parent in the last year or so? -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue39222] unittest.mock.Mock.parent is broken or undocumented

Mario Corchero added the comment: @cjw296 or @michael.foord might know why the attribute was exposed as plain "parent". It was added more than 8 years ago and I am unnable to follow the git commit history. They should then decide whether this is intenteded to be used by the users (which I n

[issue39222] unittest.mock.Mock.parent is broken or undocumented

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: It's a similar situation to name argument conflict [0] except that it's parent here. You can use configure_mock or attribute setting to do the same thing like below. parent is discussed in the docs to indicate the attributes being children like "a"

[issue39222] unittest.mock.Mock.parent is broken or undocumented

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[issue39222] unittest.mock.Mock.parent is broken or undocumented

New submission from Florian Brucker : The "parent" attribute of unittest.mock.Mock is either broken or undocumented. For example, on Python 3.7.4: >>> from unittest.mock import Mock >>> m = Mock(x=1, parent=2) >>> m.x 1 >>> m.parent Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in F