Asserting successive calls to a mock method

Question

Mock has a helpful assert_called_with() method. However, as far as I understand this only checks the last call to a method.
If I have code that calls the mocked method 3 times successively, each time with different parameters, how can I assert these 3 calls with their specific parameters?

Answer 1

assert_has_calls is another approach to this problem.

From the docs:

assert_has_calls (calls, any_order=False)

assert the mock has been called with the specified calls. The mock_calls list is checked for the calls.

If any_order is False (the default) then the calls must be sequential. There can be extra calls before or after the specified calls.

If any_order is True then the calls can be in any order, but they must all appear in mock_calls.

Example:

>>> from unittest.mock import call, Mock
>>> mock = Mock(return_value=None)
>>> mock(1)
>>> mock(2)
>>> mock(3)
>>> mock(4)
>>> calls = [call(2), call(3)]
>>> mock.assert_has_calls(calls)
>>> calls = [call(4), call(2), call(3)]
>>> mock.assert_has_calls(calls, any_order=True)

Source: https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.mock.html#unittest.mock.Mock.assert_has_calls