bpo-37955: mock.patch incorrect reference to Mock

mock.patch mentions that keyword arguments are passed to Mock when it passes to MagicMock by default. This PR fixes that.
python · Aug 26, 2019 · 6578726 · 6578726
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diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst
@@ -1369,7 +1369,7 @@ patch
     "as"; very useful if :func:`patch` is creating a mock object for you.
 
     :func:`patch` takes arbitrary keyword arguments. These will be passed to
-    the :class:`Mock` (or *new_callable*) on construction.
+    the :class:`MagicMock` (or *new_callable*) on construction.
 
     ``patch.dict(...)``, ``patch.multiple(...)`` and ``patch.object(...)`` are
     available for alternate use-cases.

diff --git a/Lib/unittest/mock.py b/Lib/unittest/mock.py
@@ -1651,7 +1651,7 @@ def patch(
     "as"; very useful if `patch` is creating a mock object for you.
 
     `patch` takes arbitrary keyword arguments. These will be passed to
-    the `Mock` (or `new_callable`) on construction.
+    the `MagicMock` (or `new_callable`) on construction.
 
     `patch.dict(...)`, `patch.multiple(...)` and `patch.object(...)` are
     available for alternate use-cases.