Model imports shown, but giving NameError on usage.

Version:

• django-extensions==2.2.8
• Django==3.0.2
• ipython==7.13.0

Sample output:

 (2004)-> ./manage.py shell_plus --ipython
[TerminalIPythonApp] WARNING | File not found: '/home/ash/.pythonrc'
# Shell Plus Model Imports
from allauth.account.models import EmailAddress, EmailConfirmation
from allauth.socialaccount.models import SocialAccount, SocialApp, SocialToken
from catalogue.models import Brand, Category, Product, ProductImage
from django.contrib.admin.models import LogEntry
from django.contrib.auth.models import Group, Permission
from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session
from django.contrib.sites.models import Site
from orders.models import LineItem, Order, Review
from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token
from users.models import User
# Shell Plus Django Imports
from django.core.cache import cache
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
from django.db import transaction
from django.db.models import Avg, Case, Count, F, Max, Min, Prefetch, Q, Sum, When, Exists, OuterRef, Subquery
from django.utils import timezone
from django.urls import reverse
Python 3.8.2 (default, Feb 26 2020, 04:23:39) 
Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
IPython 7.13.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.
[TerminalIPythonApp] WARNING | File not found: '/home/ash/.pythonrc'

In [1]: User                                                                                                                    
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NameError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-1974857568df> in <module>
----> 1 User

NameError: name 'User' is not defined

Also, in my settings I already have this:

    # Custom user app
    AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'users.User'

# settings/local.py
    INSTALLED_APPS += ('django_nose', 'django_extensions',)

[washeck]

FYI, the problem is gone in our project since we removed django_nose. I tried to reproduced the issue in a minimal project with django_extensions, ipython and django_nose but it works as expected so there’s something more needed to reproduce the issue.

[trbs]

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Successfully installed CairoSVG-2.4.2 Django-2.2.12 O365-2.0.8 Pillow-7.0.0 Pygments-2.5.2 Pyphen-0.9.5 WeasyPrint-51 appdirs-1.4.3 appnope-0.1.0 attrs-19.3.0 backcall-0.1.0 beautifulsoup4-4.9.0 black-19.10b0 boto3-1.12.8 botocore-1.15.8 cairocffi-1.1.0 certifi-2019.11.28 cffi-1.14.0 chardet-3.0.4 click-7.1.1 colorama-0.4.3 cryptography-2.8 cssselect2-0.2.2 cycler-0.10.0 decorator-4.4.1 defusedxml-0.6.0 dj-database-url-0.5.0 django-dotenv-1.4.2 django-extensions-2.2.8 django-mysql-3.3.0 django-rest-knox-4.1.0 django-rest-passwordreset-1.1.0 djangorestframework-3.11.0 docutils-0.15.2 dropbox-9.4.0 et-xmlfile-1.0.1 gunicorn-20.0.4 html5lib-1.0.1 idna-2.9 ipdb-0.12.3 ipython-7.13.0 ipython-genutils-0.2.0 jdcal-1.4.1 jedi-0.17.0 jmespath-0.9.5 kiwisolver-1.1.0 matplotlib-3.1.3 mysqlclient-1.4.6 numpy-1.18.1 oauthlib-3.1.0 openpyxl-3.0.3 pandas-0.25.3 parso-0.7.0 pathspec-0.7.0 pexpect-4.8.0 pickleshare-0.7.5 prompt-toolkit-3.0.3 psutil-5.7.0 ptyprocess-0.6.0 pycparser-2.19 pymsteams-0.1.12 pyparsing-2.4.6 python-dateutil-2.8.1 pytz-2019.3 regex-2020.2.20 requests-2.23.0 requests-oauthlib-1.3.0 s3transfer-0.3.3 sentry-sdk-0.14.2 six-1.14.0 soupsieve-2.0 sqlparse-0.3.0 stringcase-1.2.0 stripe-2.43.0 tinycss2-1.0.2 toml-0.10.0 traitlets-4.3.3 typed-ast-1.4.1 tzlocal-2.0.0 urllib3-1.25.8 wcwidth-0.1.8 webencodings-0.5.1 xlrd-1.2.0
$ django-admin startproject abz
$ cd abz
$ vi abz/settings.py
$ ./manage.py shell_plus
# Shell Plus Model Imports
from django.contrib.admin.models import LogEntry
from django.contrib.auth.models import Group, Permission, User
from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session
# Shell Plus Django Imports
from django.core.cache import cache
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
from django.db import transaction
from django.db.models import Avg, Case, Count, F, Max, Min, Prefetch, Q, Sum, When, Exists, OuterRef, Subquery
from django.utils import timezone
from django.urls import reverse
Python 3.7.7 (default, Mar 10 2020, 15:43:33)
Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
IPython 7.13.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.

In [1]: User
Out[1]: django.contrib.auth.models.User

In [2]:

Works fine for me.

Please make sure to test this stuff and verify it’s reproducible. There tons of things that might be “different” or missing in configuration in my sample project making it not fail for me.

Alternatively, if somebody (eg; you are a company who is having this issue in your project) is willing to sponsor this ticket, I can take a look at the project to fix it.