Django Module, App and Import Question - object has no attribute 'form'

I have a signup form that needs to be loaded for every page of my site if the user is a guest. I figured the easiest way to do this would be to create a "signup" app/module and have the form variable defined in the init.py so it was automatically initiated on every view, assuming I imported the module. However, I'm having a bit of trouble getting my view to find the form variable. "global name 'form' is not defined" Below is my setup:

I have a /signup/init.py and /signup/form.py files.

This is my init.py

from django import forms
from signup.form import SignUpForm

form = SignupForm()

This is my form.py

class SignupForm(forms.Form):
    fullname = forms.CharField(min_length=3, max_length=25, initial='name', error_messages={'required': 'A unique username is required.', 'min_length': 'Your username must contain at least 3 characters.'})
    username = forms.CharField(min_length=3, max_length=25, initial='choose a username', error_messages={'required': 'A unique username is required.', 'min_length': 'Your username must contain at least 3 characters.'})
    password = forms.CharField(min_length=7, initial='choose a password', error_messages={'required': 'Please enter a password.','min_length': 'Your password must contain at least 7 characters.'})
    email = forms.EmailField(initial='e-mail address', error_messages={'required': 'Please enter a valid email address.', 'invalid': 'Please enter a valid email address.'})
    find_me = forms.BooleanField(initial=True, required=False)
    tos = forms.BooleanField(error_messages={'required': 'You must accept our Terms of Serv开发者_运维知识库ice.'})

And I'm trying to load those from my /views/index.py file:

from django.http import HttpResponse
from pymongo import *
from user import *
import mongo
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext, loader
import signup

#index view
def index(request):

    return render_to_response('index.html',
        {'form': signup.form},
        context_instance=RequestContext(request),
    ) 

I removed the irrelevant code in index.py... but basically.. (i'll probably have an if else for the return statement to only return the 'form':form when the user is unregistered)

Am I approaching this completely wrong? Anyone mind showing me what I'm doing incorrectly?

::Edit::

Also, I noticed that I didn't have signup.form in the return, but that still throws a

AttributeError at /
'module' object has no attribute 'form'

error. I changed the code above to accommodate that

I would just point out that the way you're doing it is an extremely bad idea. You have one instance of the form across every request: that's always going to be dangerous, allowing the possibility of information leakage across requests. Don't do it.

Instead, use the built-in mechanism that Django has to do this for you: context processors. In your signup/form.py, define a simple function:

def signup_form(request):
    return SignupForm()

and add this to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS in settings.py:

'signup.form.signup_form',

You should use from signup import form or from signup import * to make form variable available in your views.py. If you do import signup it will import the module with the namespace signup and to address the form you need to do signup.form.

I'm not sure what you are trying to do by assigning it to an identifier?

I would do this:

#init.py:
from django import forms
from signup.form import SignUpForm

#index view
def index(request):

    return render_to_response('index.html',
        {'form': signup.SignUpForm()},
        context_instance=RequestContext(request),
    ) 

OR

#init.py:
from django import forms
from signup.form import SignUpForm as Form

#index view
def index(request):

    return render_to_response('index.html',
        {'form': signup.Form()},
        context_instance=RequestContext(request),
    ) 

UPDATE

Change your form.py to :

class SignUpForm(forms.Form):

instead of :

class SignupForm(forms.Form):