<div dir="ltr">Instead of <span class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:16.799999237060547px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">mock</span><span class="" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:16.799999237060547px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">.</span><span class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:16.799999237060547px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">patch</span><span class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:16.799999237060547px;white-space:pre">(</span><span class="" style="color:rgb(221,17,68);font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:16.799999237060547px;white-space:pre">'miners.tasks_utils.mechanize_url'</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:16.799999237060547px;white-space:pre">)</span> you should try <span class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:16.799999237060547px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">mock</span><span class="" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:16.799999237060547px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">.</span><span class="" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:16.799999237060547px;white-space:pre;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">patch</span><span class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:16.799999237060547px;white-space:pre">(</span><span class="" style="color:rgb(221,17,68);font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:16.799999237060547px;white-space:pre">'twitter_profile.mechanize_url'</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:16.799999237060547px;white-space:pre">)</span>. <div>
<br></div><div>Once your twitter_profile module is imported it will have a reference to mechanize_url. When you patch miners.tasks_utils you are not changing this reference.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Mahdi Yusuf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yusuf.mahdi@gmail.com" target="_blank">yusuf.mahdi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">I am at my wits end pretty much. I am not sure what is happening here. <div><br></div><div>I am unable to mock an import function. My code is <a href="https://gist.github.com/myusuf3/685083e70bf3f93fd43c" target="_blank">here</a>. After some reading I know you patch where the function is used not where its defined.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have also tried everything else but the mechanize_url is till running as implemented in code not mocked in test.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts? </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div>-- <br><div>Mahdi Yusuf</div>
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