Using Python 2.6.6 So I just learned that the following: myLock.acquire() doStuff() myLock.release() can be replaced with: with myLock: doStuff() My quandry is that with the former code I could unittest that the lock was being used to protect the doing-of-stuff by mocking out the Lock. But with the latter my unittest now (expectedly) fails, because acquire() and release() aren't being called. So for the latter case, how do I verify that the lock is used to protect the doing-of-stuff? I prefer the second method because it is not only more concise, but there is no chance that I'll write code that forgets to unlock a resource. (Not that I've ever done that before... ) Continue reading...
