diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst
index 748001578bb..d4169d666c4 100644
--- a/docs/faq.rst
+++ b/docs/faq.rst
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ You can mock out the imports for these modules in your ``conf.py`` with the foll
     class Mock(MagicMock):
         @classmethod
         def __getattr__(cls, name):
-                return Mock()
+                return MagicMock()
 
     MOCK_MODULES = ['pygtk', 'gtk', 'gobject', 'argparse', 'numpy', 'pandas']
     sys.modules.update((mod_name, Mock()) for mod_name in MOCK_MODULES)