Pytest-mock and unittest mock

Question

I'm new to Python and recently, I've seen that since Python 3.3, if I'm not mistaken, unittest is the standard testing framework.

I'm working on a project that uses Pytest with the pytest-mock plugin. Reading the plugin documentation, I saw that it is a thin wrapper of unittest mock, and the patch API is the same. So my question is, why to use pytest-mock plugin instead of avoid adding one more dependency to your project and just go with unittest mock?

I tried reading the documentation for both, unittest and pytest / pytest-mock, but I can't seem to find arguments that would justify using pytest-mock if I could just use the standard unittest.

Answer 1

This is answered here, but personally I would use pytest-mock plugin, it's better in

1. Making the code look cleaner
2. More readable
3. Is more powerful
4. Easier to test targets with no return values And so on.