gh-62480: De-personalize "Coping with mutable arguments" section in unittest.mock examples (GH-141323)

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@ -863,9 +863,9 @@ Here's one solution that uses the :attr:`~Mock.side_effect`
functionality. If you provide a ``side_effect`` function for a mock then functionality. If you provide a ``side_effect`` function for a mock then
``side_effect`` will be called with the same args as the mock. This gives us an ``side_effect`` will be called with the same args as the mock. This gives us an
opportunity to copy the arguments and store them for later assertions. In this opportunity to copy the arguments and store them for later assertions. In this
example I'm using *another* mock to store the arguments so that I can use the example we're using *another* mock to store the arguments so that we can use the
mock methods for doing the assertion. Again a helper function sets this up for mock methods for doing the assertion. Again a helper function sets this up for
me. :: us. ::
>>> from copy import deepcopy >>> from copy import deepcopy
>>> from unittest.mock import Mock, patch, DEFAULT >>> from unittest.mock import Mock, patch, DEFAULT