我们可以使用pytest-mock (https://pypi.org/project/pytest-mock/)模拟器对象来模拟特定模块中的日期时间行为

假设您想在以下文件中模拟日期时间

# File path - source_dir/x/a.py
import datetime

def name_function():
     name = datetime.now()
     return f"name_{name}"

在测试函数中，mock将在测试运行时添加到函数中

def test_name_function(mocker):
     mocker.patch('x.a.datetime')
     x.a.datetime.now.return_value = datetime(2019, 1, 1)

     actual = name_function()

     assert actual == "name_2019-01-01"

对我来说最简单的方法是:

import datetime
from unittest.mock import Mock, patch

def test():
    datetime_mock = Mock(wraps=datetime.datetime)
    datetime_mock.now.return_value = datetime.datetime(1999, 1, 1)
    with patch('datetime.datetime', new=datetime_mock):
        assert datetime.datetime.now() == datetime.datetime(1999, 1, 1)

注意:target_module中的datetime模块中的所有功能都将停止工作。

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)

值得注意的是，Mock文档专门讨论了datetime.date.today，并且可以在不创建虚拟类的情况下做到这一点:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.mock-examples.html#partial-mocking

>>> from datetime import date
>>> with patch('mymodule.date') as mock_date:
...     mock_date.today.return_value = date(2010, 10, 8)
...     mock_date.side_effect = lambda *args, **kw: date(*args, **kw)
...
...     assert mymodule.date.today() == date(2010, 10, 8)
...     assert mymodule.date(2009, 6, 8) == date(2009, 6, 8)
...

另一种选择是使用 https://github.com/spulec/freezegun/

安装:

pip install freezegun

并使用它:

from freezegun import freeze_time

@freeze_time("2012-01-01")
def test_something():

    from datetime import datetime
    print(datetime.now()) #  2012-01-01 00:00:00

    from datetime import date
    print(date.today()) #  2012-01-01

它还会影响其他模块的方法调用中的其他datetime调用:

other_module.py:

from datetime import datetime

def other_method():
    print(datetime.now())    

main.py:

from freezegun import freeze_time

@freeze_time("2012-01-01")
def test_something():

    import other_module
    other_module.other_method()

最后:

$ python main.py
# 2012-01-01

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…