Simon Willison’s Weblog

3rd November 2021

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TIL Quick and dirty mock testing with mock_calls — I needed to write a test that checked for a really complex sequence of mock calls for [s3-credentials#3](https://github.com/simonw/s3-credentials/issues/3).

Posted 3rd November 2021 at 1:35 am

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