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gh-62480: De-personalize "Coping with mutable arguments" section in unittest.mock examples #141323

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions Doc/library/unittest.mock-examples.rst
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Expand Up @@ -864,9 +864,9 @@ Here's one solution that uses the :attr:`~Mock.side_effect`
functionality. If you provide a ``side_effect`` function for a mock then
``side_effect`` will be called with the same args as the mock. This gives us an
opportunity to copy the arguments and store them for later assertions. In this
example I'm using *another* mock to store the arguments so that I can use the
example we're using *another* mock to store the arguments so that we can use the
mock methods for doing the assertion. Again a helper function sets this up for
me. ::
us. ::

>>> from copy import deepcopy
>>> from unittest.mock import Mock, patch, DEFAULT
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