def test_updated(self): """ Check the DataStore base class gets the requested item and returns the timestamp in position 1 of the tuple. """ self.assertTrue(hasattr(DataStore, 'updated')) ds = DataStore() timestamp = time.time() ds._get_item = MagicMock(return_value=(None, timestamp, None)) result = ds.updated('foo') self.assertEqual(timestamp, result) ds._get_item.assert_called_once_with('foo')