Michael Foord added the comment: A "side effect" is a mechanism Mock provides for mocks to have special behaviour when called.
http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/unittest.mock.html#unittest.mock.Mock.side_effect The term is used very widely throughout the mock documentation, so I don't think it's appropriate to link *every* usage to the side_effect documentation. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20487> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
