"""
my_project.connections.redis.py
"""
from redis import Redis
redis_client = Redis()

"""
my_project.connections.__init__.py
"""
from my_project.connections.redis import redis_client

"""
my_project.[all_other_modules].py
"""
from my_project.connections import redis_client

redis_client.set( ... )


"""
In connections.[some_connection].py I set up connections to external stuff, like redis. Then I expose them to all the other modules through `connections`. I guess the reason I do this is that it looks clean and I can easily maintain whatever is inside the [some_connection].py modules.

However - when I now write integration tests and want to replace Redis with FakeRedis, I can't for the life of me figure out how to patch it....

Is this even possible?

I've looked at so many examples of using unittest.mock.patch and/or monkeypatch, but however I try to patch using different namespace combinations, I can't get i working correctly.

Preliminary conclusion is that the way I'm sharing the redis instance between modules is wrong and should be changed, but I don't know the best way to change it...
"""