diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst index 514c6b7e615215..2c3574067a8407 100644 --- a/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst +++ b/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst @@ -1984,7 +1984,7 @@ Imagine we have a project that we want to test with the following structure:: Now we want to test ``some_function`` but we want to mock out ``SomeClass`` using :func:`patch`. The problem is that when we import module b, which we will have to -do then it imports ``SomeClass`` from module a. If we use :func:`patch` to mock out +do when it imports ``SomeClass`` from module a. If we use :func:`patch` to mock out ``a.SomeClass`` then it will have no effect on our test; module b already has a reference to the *real* ``SomeClass`` and it looks like our patching had no effect.