id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 382 globals should show up in model methods and classes (like normal python classes) brenocon@… Adrian Holovaty "I want to do this: {{{ import re class Note(meta.Model): #... def __repr__(self): if re.search(...) }}} Unfortunately, ""re"" isn't present in the namespace. The following exception occurs: {{{ File ""c:\brendano\djblog\apps\blog\models\blog.py"", line 25, in __repr__ if re.search(r'^\s*$', self.title): NameError: global name 're' is not defined }}} as a workaround I can just do ""import re"" inside the method. But the larger problem is, all module-level (global) variables don't appear inside any method namespaces. {{{ myglobal = 5 class Note(meta.Model): #... def __repr__(self): print myglobal }}} also gives the same error. In fact, a manual ""global myglobal"" statement fails to make it work. IMPORTANCE: so I guess the preferred django way of doing things is to make the model classes as sparse and declarative as possible. In that case the bug is a minor inconvenience. SUSPECTED CAUSE: maybe a bug in the ModelBase metaclass? SVN version: 541" defect closed Core (Other) minor wontfix brenocon@… Unreviewed 0 0 0 0 0 0