I probably should have included a few example uses. Pretend I want to mock an object that has an attribute named ivr_sends which is a list of strings. I'd do this:

mm = BazMock(ivr_sends=['abc', 'def'])

Now my test code can access mm.ivr_sends just fine.

And now pretend you need to mock attributes on attributes:

mm = BazMock(x=BazMock(y=[BazMock(a=1, b=2), BazMock(a=3, b=4)]))

And now I can access mm.x.y[0].a.

For methods, you'd need to graft on definitions like this:

def fake_foo(x):
return “99″

mm.foo = fake_foo

I've been told that there are better mock objects out there, that do stuff like inspect a module or a class and create mocks automatically.

I'm dragging my feet about learning them. Let me know if you find one you like.