Python: Mocking a context manager

You are setting the wrong mock: mock_tmp is not the context manager, but instead returns a context manager. Replace your setup line with:

mock_tmp.return_value.__enter__.return_value.name = mytmpname

and your test will work.

To expand on Nathaniel's answer, this code block

with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as mytmp:
    return mytmp.name

effectively does three things

# Firstly, it calls NamedTemporaryFile, to create a new instance of the class.
context_manager = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()  

# Secondly, it calls __enter__ on the context manager instance.
mytmp = context_manager.__enter__()  

# Thirdly, we are now "inside" the context and can do some work. 
return mytmp.name

When you replace tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile with an instance of Mock or MagicMock

context_manager = mock_tmp()
# This first line, above, will call mock_tmp().
# Therefore we need to set the return_value with
# mock_tmp.return_value

mytmp = context_manager.__enter__()
# This will call mock_tmp.return_value.__enter__() so we need to set 
# mock_tmp.return_value.__enter__.return_value

return mytmp.name
# This will access mock_tmp.return_value.__enter__.return_value.name