django ugettext translation glitch or as designed?

I am running into a challenge.  For both examples below everything is good except when I move the ugettext() to a separate file.

Good: After running the django-admin.py makemessages -l es, both examples produce the appropriate .po file.

Good: I change ../locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/django.po

          #: nav/views.py: 

          msgid "name" 

         msgstr "nombre"

Good: django-admin.py compilemessages

Good: I get the appropriate file, ../locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo 

This is a simplified version of what is happening.

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Good: 1 - This works: when ugettext is within the view.

file : /project/app/views.py

...other imports

from django.utils.translation import ugettext

class BaseView(ContextMixin, View):

    template = 'base.html'

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):

        context = self.get_context_data()

        return render(request, self.template, context)

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):

       ....

       context['translate_this']= ugettext('name')

       return context

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Bad: 2 - This Fails: when ugettext is in another file

file : /project/app/views.py                           

...other imports

from .mytext import FROM_ANOTHER_FILE

class BaseView(ContextMixin, View):

    template = 'base.html'

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):

        context = self.get_context_data()

        return render(request, self.template, context)

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):

       ....

       context['translate_this']= FROM_ANOTHER_FILE

       return context

file: /project/app/text.py                                   

from django.utils.translation import ugettext

FROM_ANOTHER_FILE = ugettext('name')

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The primary difference between the two examples is that when I separate ugettext() to another file - it fails.  

The result is that 'name' never converts to 'nombre' when changing the language.  

It works fine in example 1, 'name' and 'nombre' change depending on language selected but not in example 2.

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