patch.object() as Decorator

00:00 As I mentioned, you can use patch.object() as a decorator as well, so let me just show you what that looks like. We’ll decorate our function with @patch.object().

00:11 The first argument is the exact same way here as we’ve done, so requests and then we’re mocking the .get() method, setting the side_effect to a Timeout.

00:25 And this time we need to pass this mocked_get as an argument. This is an arbitrary name—you can call it whatever you want, but I think mocked_get makes sense.

00:36 And then we’ll remove this context manager syntax,

00:42 and then we’ll bump this line in one indentation and we’ll say, let’s see.requests.get(), side_effect is Timeout—yeah, so I think we don’t need to do anything there.

00:55 We don’t need to add any more code, we’ve already mocked .get(), we’ve set the side_effect to Timeout, and we’re asserting that it raises a Timeout.

01:03 So let’s go ahead and run the test once more.

01:07 It succeeds—no SyntaxErrors. And that just shows that you can use patch.object() as a decorator, as well as a context manager.