unittest inconsistent

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On Jan 5, 4:14 pm, Matt Haggard <haggar... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why this test fails?
>
> http://pastebin.com/f20039b17
>
> This is a minimal example of a much more complex thing I'm trying to
> do.  I'm trying to hijack a function and inspect the args passed to it
> by another function.
>
> The reason the 'Tester' object has no attribute 'arg1' is because
> "self" still refers to the object made for testA.

I hope someone else can spot the low-level reason...

...but why aren't you using http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mock/ ? Look
up its patch_object facility...