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Expand Up @@ -600,12 +600,12 @@ this list of calls for us::
Partial mocking
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In some tests I wanted to mock out a call to :meth:`datetime.date.today`
to return a known date, but I didn't want to prevent the code under test from
For some tests you may want to mock out a call to :meth:`datetime.date.today`
to return a known date, but you may not want to prevent the code under test from
creating new date objects. Unfortunately :class:`datetime.date` is written in C, and
so I couldn't just monkey-patch out the static :meth:`datetime.date.today` method.
so you cannot just monkey-patch out the static :meth:`datetime.date.today` method.

I found a simple way of doing this that involved effectively wrapping the date
A simple way of doing this involves effectively wrapping the date
class with a mock, but passing through calls to the constructor to the real
class (and returning real instances).

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