Running tests serially using "name" does not work

[isebarn]

Running requests serially works fine, but if I add an assertion and run tests serially, the "named responses" do not work

###env
procedures = 'http://localhost:5566/rest/v1/procedures'
###env

get(procedures + '/user_items',  name="items")
get(procedures + '/statuses',  name="statuses")
patch(procedures + "/user_items/" + items.json()[0]["_id"] + "/status",
	headers=headers,
	json=statuses.json()[1]
)
assert {'status_code': 200}

sublime throws an error message items is not defined