model query from jinja macros

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env.globals['m'] = sys.modules['application.models']

Assuming your application is already fully imported if you render a
template, your macro can do something like this::

{% macro recent_news(num) %}
{% set news = m.NewsModel.select(...).limit(num) %}
...
{% endmacro %}

And then like you did with mako::

{% import 'news/widget.html' as news %}
${news.recent_news(5)}