How do I unit test a module that relies on urllib2?

Question

I\'ve got a piece of code that I can\'t figure out how to unit test! The module pulls content from external XML feeds (twitter, flickr, youtube, etc.) with urllib2. Here\'s

Answer 1

You can use pymox to mock the behavior of anything and everything in the urllib2 (or any other) package. It's 2010, you shouldn't be writing your own mock classes.