Have you tried a conditional/try-catch block in your __init__? Something like
class MyDBConn(object):
def __init__(self, **db_kwargs):
try:
db = some_db.connect(**db_kwargs)
except some_db.ConnectionError:
db = my_fake_db()
finally:
self.db = db
You might have to write an adapter to make sure you can treat the fake db and
real db the same way, but that shouldn't be too hard.
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