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Mocking open for ConfigParser.RawConfigParser.readfp() for unit testing.
import io
import six
from mock import patch
from six.moves import configparser as ConfigParser
data = """
[section]
key = value
"""
if six.PY3:
func = 'builtins.open'
else:
func = '__builtin__.open'
patcher = patch(func, return_value=io.BytesIO(data))
patcher.start()
parser = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser(allow_no_value=True)
parser.readfp(open('im_not_real.cfg'))
parser.items('section')
>>> [('key', 'value')]
patcher.stop()
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