Mocking open(file_name) in unit tests

Question

I have a source code that opens a csv file and sets up a header to value association. The source code is given below:

def ParseCsvFile(source): 
  \"\"\"Pa         


        

Answer 1

Is simple with decorator (Python3):

def my_method():
    with open(file="/1.txt", mode='r', encoding='utf-8') as file:
        return file.read().strip()


@mock.patch("builtins.open", create=True)
def test_my_method(mock_open):
    mock_open.side_effect = [
        mock.mock_open(read_data="A").return_value
    ]

    resA = my_method()
    assert resA == "A"

    mock_open.mock_calls ==  [mock.call(file="/1.txt", mode='r', encoding='utf-8')]