tion will return the result of that function, - if ``side_effect`` is an exception, the async function will raise the exception, - if ``side_effect`` is an iterable, the async function will return the next value of the iterable, however, if the sequence of result is exhausted, ``StopIteration`` is raised immediately, - if ``side_effect`` is not defined, the async function will return the value defined by ``return_value``, hence, by default, the async function returns a new :class:`AsyncMock` object. If the outcome of ``side_effect`` or ``return_value`` is an async function, the mock async function obtained when the mock object is called will be this async function itself (and not an async function returning an async function). The test author can also specify a wrapped object with ``wraps``. In this case, the :class:`Mock` object behavior is the same as with an :class:`.Mock` object: the wrapped object may have methods defined as async function functions. Based on Martin Richard's asynctest project. r