http://blog.xelnor.net/python-mocking-datetime/中讨论了几种解决方案。总而言之:

模拟对象-简单有效，但打破isinstance()检查:

target = datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 1)
with mock.patch.object(datetime, 'datetime', mock.Mock(wraps=datetime.datetime)) as patched:
    patched.now.return_value = target
    print(datetime.datetime.now())

模拟类

import datetime
import mock

real_datetime_class = datetime.datetime

def mock_datetime_now(target, dt):
    class DatetimeSubclassMeta(type):
        @classmethod
        def __instancecheck__(mcs, obj):
            return isinstance(obj, real_datetime_class)

    class BaseMockedDatetime(real_datetime_class):
        @classmethod
        def now(cls, tz=None):
            return target.replace(tzinfo=tz)

        @classmethod
        def utcnow(cls):
            return target

    # Python2 & Python3 compatible metaclass
    MockedDatetime = DatetimeSubclassMeta('datetime', (BaseMockedDatetime,), {})

    return mock.patch.object(dt, 'datetime', MockedDatetime)

使用:

with mock_datetime_now(target, datetime):
   ....

可以在不添加side_effects的情况下模拟datetime模块中的函数

import mock
from datetime import datetime
from where_datetime_used import do

initial_date = datetime.strptime('2018-09-27', "%Y-%m-%d")
with mock.patch('where_datetime_used.datetime') as mocked_dt:
    mocked_dt.now.return_value = initial_date
    do()

monkeypatch的最小工作示例

这个解决方案使用https://pypi.org/project/pytest-mock/包中的monkeypatch。

特点:

仅模拟datetime.today()，但datetime.now()仍然可以正常工作 仅在特定范围内模拟(即块)

import sys
from datetime import datetime

MOCKED_DATETIME_TODAY = datetime(1900, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0)

class MockedDatetime(datetime):
    @classmethod
    def today(cls):
        return MOCKED_DATETIME_TODAY

def test_mock_datetime_today(monkeypatch):
    """Only datetime.today() is mocked and returns some date in 1900. datetime.now() returns still the current date."""
    with monkeypatch.context() as mpc:
        mpc.setattr(sys.modules[__name__], 'datetime', MockedDatetime)
        assert datetime.today() == MOCKED_DATETIME_TODAY  # datetime.today() mocked
        assert datetime.now() > MOCKED_DATETIME_TODAY    # datetime.now() not mocked

    assert datetime.today() > MOCKED_DATETIME_TODAY  # not mocked anymore

我通过将datetime导入为realdatetime并将我在模拟中需要的方法替换为实际方法来完成这项工作:

import datetime as realdatetime

@mock.patch('datetime')
def test_method(self, mock_datetime):
    mock_datetime.today = realdatetime.today
    mock_datetime.now.return_value = realdatetime.datetime(2019, 8, 23, 14, 34, 8, 0)

CPython实际上使用纯python Lib/datetime.py和c优化的Modules/ _datetimmodule .c实现了datetime模块。c优化版本不能打补丁，但纯python版本可以。

在Lib/datetime.py中纯python实现的底部是这样的代码:

try:
    from _datetime import *  # <-- Import from C-optimized module.
except ImportError:
    pass

这段代码导入了所有c优化的定义，并有效地替换了所有纯python定义。我们可以通过以下方式强制CPython使用datetime模块的纯python实现:

import datetime
import importlib
import sys

sys.modules["_datetime"] = None
importlib.reload(datetime)

通过设置sys。modules["_datetime"] = None，我们告诉Python忽略c优化的模块。然后重新加载导致从_datetime导入失败的模块。现在纯python定义仍然存在，可以正常打补丁。

如果你正在使用Pytest，那么在conftest.py中包含上面的代码片段，你就可以正常地修补datetime对象了。

我使用自定义装饰器实现了@user3016183方法:

def changeNow(func, newNow = datetime(2015, 11, 23, 12, 00, 00)):
    """decorator used to change datetime.datetime.now() in the tested function."""
    def retfunc(self):                             
        with mock.patch('mymodule.datetime') as mock_date:                         
            mock_date.now.return_value = newNow
            mock_date.side_effect = lambda *args, **kw: datetime(*args, **kw)
            func(self)
    return retfunc

我想这也许有一天能帮到别人…