Patching a python class attribute in a unit test using mock

I often want to change a class attribute in a unit test. While it is sort of documented in the official documentation, it's missing an actual example of this use case. So say you have a class:

class MyClass(object):
  myattr = 1

and you want to test the functionality of the class, but need to change the value of myattr from the default:

import mock
import modulename

with mock.patch.object(modulename.MyClass, "myattr", new=50):
  # do test stuff

Snippet for verifying a SHA256 hash of a downloaded file in bash

This snippet will download openssl and verify the hash against a hard-coded value. This is useful on old operating systems (specifically CentOS 5.11) that can't actually establish an SSL connection to lots of sites.

#!/bin/bash

SSL_VERSION=1.0.2d
SSL_SHA256=671c36487785628a703374c652ad2cebea45fa920ae5681515df25d9f2c9a8c8
RETRIEVED_HASH=$(wget -q -O - http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-${SSL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tee openssl-${SSL_VERSION}.tar.gz | sha256sum | cut -d' ' -f1)
if [ "${RETRIEVED_HASH}" != "${SSL_SHA256}" ]; then
  echo "Bad hash for openssl-${SSL_VERSION}.tar.gz, quitting"
  exit 1
fi