Document use of ANY in test assertions (GH-94060)

diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst
index eca20b94ec8e740a93c082ac11b9f7a782ced128..b0a5d96c38d375b346da6ba5624e3daa6dcc657c 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst
@@ -2426,6 +2426,14 @@ passed in.
     >>> m.mock_calls == [call(1), call(1, 2), ANY]
     True
 
+:data:`ANY` is not limited to comparisons with call objects and so
+can also be used in test assertions::
+
+    class TestStringMethods(unittest.TestCase):
+
+        def test_split(self):
+            s = 'hello world'
+            self.assertEqual(s.split(), ['hello', ANY])
 
 
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