I'm working on a codebase where tests use a mixture of mock.patch and pytest's monkeypatch, seemingly based on authors' personal preferences.

The official docs for the latter, https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/monkeypatch.html, refer to a blog post that's nearing its 10th anniversary; meanwhile the earlier made it into Python proper.

I wonder if there's official advice, like "use X", or perhaps "if you need feature Y, use Z" to choose between the two.