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<h1>Sentinel<a class="headerlink" href="#sentinel" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<tt class="descname">sentinel</tt><a class="headerlink" href="#mock.sentinel" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sentinel</span></tt> object provides a convenient way of providing unique
objects for your tests.</p>
<p>Attributes are created on demand when you access them by name. Accessing
the same attribute will always return the same object. The objects
returned have a sensible repr so that test failure messages are readable.</p>
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<dd><p>The <cite>DEFAULT</cite> object is a pre-created sentinel (actually
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<h2>Sentinel Example<a class="headerlink" href="#sentinel-example" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Sometimes when testing you need to test that a specific object is passed as an
argument to another method, or returned. It can be common to create named
sentinel objects to test this. <cite>sentinel</cite> provides a convenient way of
creating and testing the identity of objects like this.</p>
<p>In this example we monkey patch <cite>method</cite> to return
<cite>sentinel.some_object</cite>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">real</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ProductionClass</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">real</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">method</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Mock</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"method"</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">real</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">method</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">return_value</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">sentinel</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">some_object</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">result</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">real</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">method</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">assert</span> <span class="n">result</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="n">sentinel</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">some_object</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">sentinel</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">some_object</span>
<span class="go">sentinel.some_object</span>
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