I am working with Python unit tests and am trying to create a basic test.

In doing so, I have created a ‘Person’ class and am attempting to mock one of its methods. However, when I run the file, python says that ‘Person’ cannot be found… despite this class being in the exact same file as the test itself.

Any ideas as to whats going on?

from unittest.mock import patch, Mock

class Person():

    name = None
    age = None
    profession = None

    def __init__(self, name:str, age:int, profession:str):
        self.name = name
        self.age = age
        self.profession = profession

    def getProfession(self):
        return self.profession


@patch('Person.getProfession')
def simple_test(mock_get):
    mockProfession = Mock()
    profession = "CEO"

    mockProfession.return_value = profession

    mock_get.return_value = mockProfession

    person = Person("Jim Jimmerson", 44, "TEACHER")

    assert person.getProfession() == "CEO"


simple_test()

stacktrace:

in exec_module
    exec(co, module.__dict__)
test_call_lambda.py:47: in <module>
    simple_test()
C:Python311Libunittestmock.py:1372: in patched
    with self.decoration_helper(patched,
C:Python311Libcontextlib.py:137: in __enter__
    return next(self.gen)
C:Python311Libunittestmock.py:1354: in decoration_helper
    arg = exit_stack.enter_context(patching)
C:Python311Libcontextlib.py:505: in enter_context
    result = _enter(cm)
C:Python311Libunittestmock.py:1427: in __enter__
    self.target = self.getter()
C:Python311Libpkgutil.py:700: in resolve_name
    mod = importlib.import_module(modname)
C:Python311Libimportlib__init__.py:126: in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
<frozen importlib._bootstrap>:1204: in _gcd_import
    ???
<frozen importlib._bootstrap>:1176: in _find_and_load
    ???
<frozen importlib._bootstrap>:1140: in _find_and_load_unlocked
    ???
E   ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Person'