Sphinx automodule not willing to import Translation

Question

I have a sneaking suspicion that Sphinx doesn't like my class Translation. When I try to do an automethod:

.. automethod:: translations.models.Translation.new

I get this warning:

/Users/dash/Projects/zamboni/zamboni/docs/topics/translations.rst:39: 
(WARNING/2) autodoc can't import/find method 
'translations.models.Translation.new', it reported error: "cannot import name
Translation", please check your spelling and sys.path

The path and whatnot are correct. I've tried importing Translation directly in conf.py and had similar issues. I still had issues when I tried something like:

from translations.models import Translation as t

It was able to import, but an import within Translation eventually caused Sphinx to return the same error.

The documentation in question is here:

Zamboni Documentation