diff --git a/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py b/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
index 95f14f0a577d96..ed41cf303ffe74 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
@@ -749,12 +749,12 @@ def test_invalid_header_names(self):
                             method=method,
                             ):
                         message = Message(policy=thispolicy)
-                        method = getattr(message, method)
+                        class_method = getattr(message, method)
                         with self.assertRaisesRegex(
                             ValueError,
                             '(?i)(?=.*invalid)(?=.*header)(?=.*name)'
                             ) as cm:
-                            method(name, value)
+                            class_method(name, value)
                         self.assertIn(f"{name!r}", str(cm.exception))
 
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_email/test_message.py b/Lib/test/test_email/test_message.py
index b3e2b7bf71d956..905420dbdf33a2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_email/test_message.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_email/test_message.py
@@ -1025,12 +1025,12 @@ def test_invalid_header_names(self):
                             method=method,
                             ):
                         message = EmailMessage(policy=thispolicy)
-                        method = getattr(message, method)
+                        class_method = getattr(message, method)
                         with self.assertRaisesRegex(
                             ValueError,
                             '(?i)(?=.*invalid)(?=.*header)(?=.*name)'
                             ) as cm:
-                            method(name,value)
+                            class_method(name,value)
                         self.assertIn(f"{name!r}", str(cm.exception))
 
     def test_get_body_malformed(self):