With Mock you can mock magic methods but you have to define them. MagicMock has "default implementations of most of the magic methods.". If you don't need to test any magic methods, Mock is adequate and doesn't bring a lot of extraneous things into your tests. If you need to test a lot of magic methods MagicMock will save you some time.
Magic numbers are special value of certain variables which causes the program to behave in an special manner. For example, a communication library might take a Timeout parameter and it can define the magic number "-1" for indicating infinite timeout.
%cd ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax Note: The idea for this question came from an earlier question with a similar title ("Do jupyter magic commands work on VS Code?") where the actual problem was unrelated. I'm not genuinely asking, this is just a likely scenario that could lead a VSCode beginner to ask the same question, similar to a canonical ...
ImportError: failed to find libmagic. Check your installation I have magic1.dll (along with the two other files the docs specified) in C:\Windows\System32 so I am not sure what the issue is. I would appreciate any help or workarounds.
%matplotlib is a magic function in IPython. I'll quote the relevant documentation here for you to read for convenience: IPython has a set of predefined ‘magic functions’ that you can call with a command line style syntax. There are two kinds of magics, line-oriented and cell-oriented. Line magics are prefixed with the % character and work much like OS command-line calls: they get as an ...
