Can't pickle MagicMock or Mock

This is because a MagicMock instance has a custom MagicMock subclass.

{{{
>>> from pickle import dumps
>>> from mock import MagicMock
>>> dumps(MagicMock())
Traceback (most recent call last):
  ...
pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle <class 'mock.MagicMock'>: it's not the same 
object as mock.MagicMock
}}}

Original issue reported on code.google.com by fuzzyman on 8 Mar 2012 at 6:17

[sprt]

This works for my use case:

class PickableMock(Mock):
    def __reduce__(self):
        return (Mock, ())

[rbtcollins]

Upstreamed as http://bugs.python.org/issue14577 and http://bugs.python.org/issue20804

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