Demonstrating a problem with patching and the Tastypie api client.

test.py

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from tastypie.test import ResourceTestCase


class Test(ResourceTestCase):

    def test_patch(self):
        user = User(username='username', email='test@test.com')
        user.set_password('password')
        user.save()
        uri = '/api/v1/users/%s' % user.pk
        data = {
            'email': 'new@test.com',
        }
        response = self.api_client.patch(uri, authentication=self.create_basic('username', 'password'), data=data)
        self.assertHttpAccepted(response)
        user = User.objects.get(pk=user.pk)
        self.assertEqual(user.email, 'new@test.com')