Mocking a class method that is used via an instance

Question

I\'m trying to patch a class method using mock as described in the documentation. The Mock object itself works fine, but its methods don\'t: For example, their attributes like <

Answer 1

I mock classmethods like this:

def raiser(*args, **kwargs):
    raise forms.ValidationError('foo')
with mock.patch.object(mylib.Commands, 'my_class_method', classmethod(raiser)):
    response=self.admin_client.get(url, data=dict(term='+1000'))