On Jan 5, 4:14 pm, Matt Haggard <haggar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can anyone tell me why this test fails? > > http://pastebin.com/f20039b17 > > This is a minimal example of a much more complex thing I'm trying to > do. I'm trying to hijack a function and inspect the args passed to it > by another function. > > The reason the 'Tester' object has no attribute 'arg1' is because > "self" still refers to the object made for testA.
I hope someone else can spot the low-level reason... ...but why aren't you using http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mock/ ? Look up its patch_object facility... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list