[3.11] Document use of ANY in test assertions (GH-94060) (GH-115608)

miss-islington · graingert · web-flow · commit a6776cdc53cf · 2024-02-17T13:24:40.000Z
(cherry picked from commit 04005f5) Co-authored-by: Thomas Grainger <tagrain@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst
@@ -2375,6 +2375,14 @@ passed in.
     >>> m.mock_calls == [call(1), call(1, 2), ANY]
     True
 
+:data:`ANY` is not limited to comparisons with call objects and so
+can also be used in test assertions::
+
+    class TestStringMethods(unittest.TestCase):
+
+        def test_split(self):
+            s = 'hello world'
+            self.assertEqual(s.split(), ['hello', ANY])
 
 
 FILTER_DIR
