cpdean · July 3, 2013 00:10 · Jul 3, 2013
diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
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+This is how mock.patch should be used, but I'm having some problems on my own codebase.
+
+It's weird, but in this tiny example everything works just fine...
diff --git a/db.py b/db.py
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+import boto.s3.connection
+
+
+creds = {"aws_secret_access_key": "fakes",
+         "aws_access_key_id": "fakes"}
+
+
+class DBConnection(object):
+    def connect(self):
+        return boto.s3.connection.S3Connection(**creds).get_bucket("something")
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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+boto==2.9.6
+mock==1.0.1
+nose==1.3.0
diff --git a/service.py b/service.py
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+import db
+
+def connect():
+    return db.DBConnection().connect()
diff --git a/tests.py b/tests.py
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+import service
+from mock import patch
+
+
+def service_test():
+    with patch("boto.s3.connection.S3Connection.get_bucket") as c:
+        service.connect()
+        c.assert_called_with("something")
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		This is how mock.patch should be used, but I'm having some problems on my own codebase.

		It's weird, but in this tiny example everything works just fine...