pydev in Eclipse doesn't recognise DatabaseOperations

[mrpfisher@…]

pydev complains "Undefined variable from import" for db.create_table, db.send_create_signal, etc in migration files.

The issue is described ​here on Stack Overflow.

This is the proposed patch for south/db/__init__.py submitted by SmileyChris?.

--- db/__init__.py.original 2010-12-02 03:00:26.000000000 +1300
+++ db/__init__.py  2011-05-02 14:07:19.353636710 +1200
@@ -72,5 +72,9 @@
     )
     sys.exit(1)

-# Finally, to make old migrations work, keep 'db' around as the default database
+# Finally, to make old migrations work, keep 'db' around as the default
+# database. We're setting it explicitly to the generic operations first to
+# avoid pydev errors.
+from south.db import generic
+db = generic.DatabaseOperations(DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS)
 db = dbs[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS]

[andrew]

I'm afraid that I'm not going to commit a fix purely for the benefit of pydev's linter/introspector - it sets a bad precedent.