Python: block network connections for testing purposes?

Question

I\'m trying to test a package that provides interfaces to a few web services. It has a test suite that is supposed to test most functions without connecting to the

Answer 1

A simple way to put a gag on the requests library:

from unittest import mock

requests_gag = mock.patch(
    'requests.Session.request',
    mock.Mock(side_effect=RuntimeError(
        'Please use the `responses` library to mock HTTP in your tests.'
    ))
)

with requests_gag:
    ...  # no Internet here