v0.7.3-v0.7.6 shipped — 4 modern-Python parser fixes, thanks to @jsabater for the first repro

[FROWNINGdev]

After @jsabater filed #25 yesterday about typed Django/Ninja fields silently disappearing from the sidebar, I did a targeted fuzz of the class + field regexes for other modern-Python shapes that might silently break. Ended up finding three more.

Fixed

• v0.7.3 / py-1.2.3 — PEP-526 type annotations on model fields: jti: CharField[str] = models.CharField(...). Reported by @jsabater with a beautifully minimal Django Ninja 1.6 repro. Fields silently disappeared from the sidebar, ER diagram, n+1 detector, MCP describe_model, find_relations — everything that reads the parsed schema.
• v0.7.4 / py-1.2.4 — PEP-695 generic class headers (Python 3.12+): class Container[T](models.Model):. CLASS_RE didn't allow [T] between the name and (, so entire classes vanished from the walk.
• v0.7.5 / py-1.2.5 — Aliased models module (from django.db import models as m → x = m.CharField(...)) and third-party field packages (x = jsonfield.JSONField(...)). Same underlying gap in BARE_FIELD_RE.
• v0.7.6 / py-1.2.6 — Tab-indented model bodies. \s{indent} doesn't count a single \t as 4 chars even though _detect_class_indent did. Every field silently dropped for editors defaulting to tabs.

The pattern

All four bugs are the same shape: user-written code parses fine as Python but silently produces zero fields — no error, no warning, no crash. The reason regex parsers were used in the first place (no runtime dep, fast, safe) is exactly why these bugs are so hard to spot — the tool just returns empty results.

Ended up shipping 19 regression tests across the four fixes (Python 183 total, TS 4 total) that lock the exact shapes down. Any future syntax evolution that regresses these gets caught at CI time.

Try it

pip install --upgrade "django-orm-lens[mcp]"
code --install-extension frowningdev.django-orm-lens
codium --install-extension frowningdev.django-orm-lens

Thanks

• @jsabater — first-hit repro that started the whole audit round
• Everyone hitting pip install django-orm-lens for the second week running (~1.6k/week, we see you)

What's next

Focus stays on quality over new features for the next week. The MCP-plus-CLI-plus-extension surface is doing its job (2k+ PyPI installs, 14 stars, 6 external PRs) and we're closing the long tail of edge-case parser bugs. Feature request queue: #3 (ORM query autocomplete) is still the flagship candidate for v0.8 — 2-3 weeks of work.

If you hit a parse gap of your own, please file it like jsabater did — a 3-line repro is all we need to fix it same-day.