twisted.test.mock_win32process

This is a mock win32process module.

The purpose of this module is mock process creation for the PID test.

CreateProcess(...) will spawn a process, and always return a PID of 42.

def CreateProcess(appName, cmdline, procSecurity, threadSecurity, inheritHandles, newEnvironment, env, workingDir, startupInfo):

This function mocks the generated pid aspect of the win32.CreateProcess function.

the true win32process.CreateProcess is called
return values are harvested in a tuple.
all return values from createProcess are passed back to the calling function except for the pid, the returned pid is hardcoded to 42

twisted.test.mock_win32process module documentation