Class MagicMock

Lib/unittest/mock.py:2225–2255

MagicMock is a subclass of Mock with default implementations of most of the magic methods. You can use MagicMock without having to configure the magic methods yourself. If you use the `spec` or `spec_set` arguments then *only* magic methods that exist in the spec will be create

class MagicMock(MagicMixin, Mock):
    """
    MagicMock is a subclass of Mock with default implementations
    of most of the magic methods. You can use MagicMock without having to
    configure the magic methods yourself.

    If you use the `spec` or `spec_set` arguments then *only* magic
    methods that exist in the spec will be created.

    Attributes and the return value of a `MagicMock` will also be `MagicMocks`.
    """
    def mock_add_spec(self, spec, spec_set=False):
        """Add a spec to a mock. `spec` can either be an object or a
        list of strings. Only attributes on the `spec` can be fetched as
        attributes from the mock.

        If `spec_set` is True then only attributes on the spec can be set."""
        self._mock_add_spec(spec, spec_set)
        self._mock_set_magics()

    def reset_mock(self, /, *args, return_value: bool = False, **kwargs):
        if (
            return_value
            and self._mock_name
            and _is_magic(self._mock_name)
        ):
            # Don't reset return values for magic methods,
            # otherwise `m.__str__` will start
            # to return `MagicMock` instances, instead of `str` instances.
            return_value = False
        super().reset_mock(*args, return_value=return_value, **kwargs)


class MagicProxy(Base):