oop - Python - Testing an abstract base class

Question

I am looking for ways / best practices on testing methods defined in an abstract base class. One thing I can think of directly is performing the test on all concrete subclasses of the base class, but that seems excessive at some times.

Consider this example:

import abc

class Abstract(object):

    __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta

    @abc.abstractproperty
    def id(self):
        return   

    @abc.abstractmethod
    def foo(self):
        print "foo"

    def bar(self):
        print "bar"

Is it possible to test bar without doing any subclassing?

Answer 1

In newer versions of Python you can use unittest.mock.patch()

class MyAbcClassTest(unittest.TestCase):

    @patch.multiple(MyAbcClass, __abstractmethods__=set())
    def test(self):
         self.instance = MyAbcClass() # Ha!