gh-62480: De-personalize "Partial mocking" section in unittest.mock examples (#141321)

* Refine some wording in unittest partial mock doc

Some of the descriptions were addressed in first person,
but have now been changed to address the user reading the documentation instead.

Co-authored-by: C.A.M. Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM>
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@@ -600,13 +600,13 @@ this list of calls for us::
Partial mocking
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In some tests I wanted to mock out a call to :meth:`datetime.date.today`
to return a known date, but I didn't want to prevent the code under test from
creating new date objects. Unfortunately :class:`datetime.date` is written in C, and
so I couldn't just monkey-patch out the static :meth:`datetime.date.today` method.
For some tests, you may want to mock out a call to :meth:`datetime.date.today`
to return a known date, but don't want to prevent the code under test from
creating new date objects. Unfortunately :class:`datetime.date` is written in C,
so you cannot just monkey-patch out the static :meth:`datetime.date.today` method.
I found a simple way of doing this that involved effectively wrapping the date
class with a mock, but passing through calls to the constructor to the real
Instead, you can effectively wrap the date
class with a mock, while passing through calls to the constructor to the real
class (and returning real instances).
The :func:`patch decorator <patch>` is used here to