gh-91803: Mock - fix error when using autospec methods with seal (#92213

)

Fixes #91803.

Co-authored-by: Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.karthi@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Irit Katriel <1055913+iritkatriel@users.noreply.github.com>

Lib/test/test_unittest/testmock/testsealable.py

@@ -200,6 +200,9 @@ def ban(self):
                 self.assertIsInstance(foo.Baz.baz, mock.NonCallableMagicMock)
                 self.assertIsInstance(foo.Baz.ban, mock.MagicMock)
 
+                # see gh-91803
+                self.assertIsInstance(foo.bar2(), mock.MagicMock)
+
                 self.assertEqual(foo.bar1(), 'a')
                 foo.bar1.return_value = 'new_a'
                 self.assertEqual(foo.bar1(), 'new_a')
@@ -212,7 +215,7 @@ def ban(self):
                 with self.assertRaises(AttributeError):
                     foo.bar = 1
                 with self.assertRaises(AttributeError):
-                    foo.bar2()
+                    foo.bar2().x
 
                 foo.bar2.return_value = 'bar2'
                 self.assertEqual(foo.bar2(), 'bar2')

Lib/unittest/mock.py

@@ -2745,6 +2745,7 @@ def create_autospec(spec, spec_set=False, instance=False, _parent=None,
                               _new_parent=parent,
                               **kwargs)
             mock._mock_children[entry] = new
+            new.return_value = child_klass()
             _check_signature(original, new, skipfirst=skipfirst)
 
         # so functions created with _set_signature become instance attributes,

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-05-03-11-32-29.gh-issue-91803.pI4Juv.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Fix an error when using a method of objects mocked with
+:func:`unittest.mock.create_autospec` after it was sealed with
+:func:`unittest.mock.seal` function.