Merge pull request #8297 from pytest-dev/monkeypatch-docs

doc: Point out two-argument form of monkeypatch.setattr
pytest-dev · Feb 4, 2021 · 3907856 · 3907856
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diff --git a/doc/en/monkeypatch.rst b/doc/en/monkeypatch.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ functionality in tests:
 .. code-block:: python
 
     monkeypatch.setattr(obj, name, value, raising=True)
+    monkeypatch.setattr("somemodule.obj.name", value, raising=True)
     monkeypatch.delattr(obj, name, raising=True)
     monkeypatch.setitem(mapping, name, value)
     monkeypatch.delitem(obj, name, raising=True)