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How to mock an artifact store with local paths in Python for ML pipelines

Create a temporary local artifact store with dummy files and metadata to test ML pipeline code without real storage.

ml-pipelines mock tempfile
Python 
import tempfile
from pathlib import Path
import json


def create_artifact_store_mock(base_path: Path = None):
    """Create a local artifact store mock directory structure."""
    if base_path is None:
        base_path = Path(tempfile.mkdtemp())

    store_layout = {
        "artifacts": [
            {"name": "mode…
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