How to mock.patch MySQLdb.cursors?

class CanonDatabase:
    def __init__(self, clean_up_db=False):
        self.db = "tmg_canon_april_tokens"
        self.conn = create_connection(self.db)
        self.cur = self.conn.cursor(cursorclass=MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor)

I am trying to mock.patch MySQLdb in order to pass the constructor.

@mock.patch.object(MySQLdb, '__init__')
class TestDatabase(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        super(TestDatabase, self).setUp()
        patch = mock.patch('atone_canon.Database.create_connection')
        mock_baz = patch.start()
        mock_baz.cursor.return_value = mock.MagicMock()

    def tearDown(self):
        super(TestDatabase, self).tearDown()
        mock.patch.stopall()

    def test_clean_table(self, mysql_mock):
        db = CanonDatabase()
        self.assertEqual(True, False)

However this fails with the following error message:

File "atone_canon/Database.py", line 20, in __init__ self.cur = self.conn.cursor(cursorclass=MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor)

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'cursors'