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"""
TL/DR:
Never instantiate mock.Mock() directly.
Instead use either mock.create_autospec(YourClass) OR mock.patch('YourClass', autospec=True).

The "spec" feature of Mock is great, it helps avoid your mocked API drifting out of sync with your real API.
But there is a gotcha if you are mocking classes directly - it's easy to mock the class but you need to
ensure the spec applies to the *instance* as well.
"""