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

@mock.patch decorator (2.7 example)

This is now much easier:

import your_script.py
import __builtin__
import mock


@mock.patch("__builtin__.open")
def test_example(self, mock_open):
    your_script.your_method()
    self.assertEqual(mock_open.call_count, 1)