diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/doc.py b/lib/ansible/cli/doc.py
index 265b1c9a3f..950e3d78fc 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/doc.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/doc.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import textwrap
 
 from ansible.compat.six import iteritems
 
+from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError
 from ansible.plugins import module_loader
 from ansible.cli import CLI
@@ -41,9 +42,6 @@ except ImportError:
 class DocCLI(CLI):
     """ Vault command line class """
 
-    BLACKLIST_EXTS = ('.pyc', '.swp', '.bak', '~', '.rpm', '.md', '.txt')
-    IGNORE_FILES = [ "COPYING", "CONTRIBUTING", "LICENSE", "README", "VERSION", "GUIDELINES", "test-docs.sh"]
-
     def __init__(self, args):
 
         super(DocCLI, self).__init__(args)
@@ -96,7 +94,7 @@ class DocCLI(CLI):
                     display.warning("module %s not found in %s\n" % (module, DocCLI.print_paths(module_loader)))
                     continue
 
-                if any(filename.endswith(x) for x in self.BLACKLIST_EXTS):
+                if any(filename.endswith(x) for x in C.BLACKLIST_EXTS):
                     continue
 
                 try:
@@ -143,11 +141,11 @@ class DocCLI(CLI):
                     continue
                 elif os.path.isdir(module):
                     self.find_modules(module)
-                elif any(module.endswith(x) for x in self.BLACKLIST_EXTS):
+                elif any(module.endswith(x) for x in C.BLACKLIST_EXTS):
                     continue
                 elif module.startswith('__'):
                     continue
-                elif module in self.IGNORE_FILES:
+                elif module in C.IGNORE_FILES:
                     continue
                 elif module.startswith('_'):
                     fullpath = '/'.join([path,module])
diff --git a/lib/ansible/constants.py b/lib/ansible/constants.py
index 2ca0173438..d38dde6eb4 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/constants.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/constants.py
@@ -302,3 +302,6 @@ VAULT_VERSION_MIN         = 1.0
 VAULT_VERSION_MAX         = 1.0
 TREE_DIR                  = None
 LOCALHOST                 = frozenset(['127.0.0.1', 'localhost', '::1'])
+# module search
+BLACKLIST_EXTS = ('.pyc', '.swp', '.bak', '~', '.rpm', '.md', '.txt')
+IGNORE_FILES = [ "COPYING", "CONTRIBUTING", "LICENSE", "README", "VERSION", "GUIDELINES", "test-docs.sh"]