X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blobdiff_plain/e7973cab8f9fc9531e4d928e73928e6eab022f48..f51c721f97c6e5ef4fda47e6d0fc45cdd2c2b77d:/sdk/python/tests/test_keep_client.py

diff --git a/sdk/python/tests/test_keep_client.py b/sdk/python/tests/test_keep_client.py
index 04bcab89d6..900143ebf7 100644
--- a/sdk/python/tests/test_keep_client.py
+++ b/sdk/python/tests/test_keep_client.py
@@ -312,15 +312,10 @@ class KeepClientRetryGetTestCase(unittest.TestCase, KeepClientRetryTestMixin):
             self.check_success(locator=self.HINTED_LOCATOR)
 
     def test_try_next_server_after_timeout(self):
-        responses = iter([None, (fake_httplib2_response(200),
-                                 self.DEFAULT_EXPECT)])
-        def side_effect(*args, **kwargs):
-            response = next(responses)
-            if response is None:
-                raise socket.timeout("timed out")
-            else:
-                return response
-        with mock.patch('httplib2.Http.request', side_effect=side_effect):
+        side_effects = [socket.timeout("timed out"),
+                        (fake_httplib2_response(200), self.DEFAULT_EXPECT)]
+        with mock.patch('httplib2.Http.request',
+                        side_effect=iter(side_effects)):
             self.check_success(locator=self.HINTED_LOCATOR)