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23289	Make mock library available for testing in Django	Claude Paroz	Tim Graham	"This question was raised while working on #21523.
`unittest.mock` is available in Python 3.3+. Backports for previous Python versions are available from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mock.

Basically the main options are:

1. Vendor the mock library backport in Django and conditionally import that backport (we used to have that for unittest2).

2. Use a strategy similar to the `selenium` dependency, that is having a test class or a mixin class explicitly used when we are using `mock` functionality in a test, and that class would skip the test when `mock` is not available.

3. Have the `mock` library as a hard dependency for our test suite, checking its availability in `runtests.py` for Python < 3.3 with an appropriate message."	New feature	closed	Testing framework	dev	Normal	fixed		Tim Graham	Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0