I'm not sure why you're getting that specific error, but I see a few
problems:
This may be a typo, but your module pastie says the module is named
object.py (which is probably not a good idea, since 'object' is a Python
builtin), but the controller says 'from objects import Search' (note the
plural).
staticmethods do not implicitly receive the object instance as the first
argument, so your show() function in class Search should not include the
'self' argument.
This is not critical, but when creating a class, I think it is generally
preferable to use new style classes, so you should do 'class
Search(object):' instead of just 'class Search:'.
A couple of side notes:
As of 1.98.1, you no longer have to use TAG['']() -- instead you can use the
new CAT() tag (which does exactly the same thing).
The 'current' object is a thread-local object, and the framework adds the
request, response, session, cache, and T objects to it (i.e.,
current.request, current.response, etc.). You can import 'current' from
gluon and then use it to access those request-scope objects within any
module without having to explicitly pass them as arguments.
Anthony
