Mock parent class __init__ method

Question

I am trying to write some unittests on a class which is derived from another, but I have some difficulties to mock the parent class init method, which afaik you

Answer 1

For the first solution, change the return value of the __init__ method to None.

@patch("Derived.Parent.__init__")
def test_init_001(self, mock_parent_init):
    mock_parent_init.return_value = None  # <---
    a = Derived("I am Derived")
    mock_parent_init.assert_called_with("I am Derived")
    self.assertEquals(a.parent_list, ["PARENT", "DERIVED"])

For the second solution, patch Parent.Imported:

@patch("Parent.Imported")  # <---
def test_init_002(self, mock_parent_init):
    a = Derived("I am Derived")
    mock_parent_init.assert_called_with("I am Derived")
    self.assertEquals(a.parent_list, ["PARENT", "DERIVED"])