I am aware of the importance of path to mock as illustrated here, but consider this Django scenario

models.py

class Proxmox(Model):
    @property
    def api(self, ...):
        ....

tasks.py

def run_task(...):
    ....

views.py

from models import Proxmox
from tasks import run_task

class APIView(...):
    ...
    Proxmox.objects.get(...).api.do_something()
    run_task()

tests.py

class MyTestCase(...):
    @mock.patch('tasks.run_task')     <---- this is not patched as already imported in view
    #@mock.patch('views.run_task').   <---- this patches fine
    @mock.patch('models.Proxmox.api') <---- but why this works fine?
    def test_one(self, mock_api, mock_run_task):
        client.get(....)
        ...

Both Proxmox and run_task are imported into views.py so why patching models.Proxmox.api still got patched?