I'm new to Django, have been doing several tutorials to get really comfortable with the structuring, and am now running through the official tutorial.
I've created an polls App, which has a polls/views.py file as follows:
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse
# Create your views here.
def index(request):
return HttpResponse("Hello, World. You're at the polls index.")
I've also created an App URLconf file polls/urls.py with the following code:
from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views
url_patterns = [
url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
]
This is pretty much exactly as done in the Django tutorial.
My issue is when I'm specifying url routes in the main projectname/url.py file on a project level as such:
from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')),
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
]
When doing this, I get the following error:
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: The included URLconf '<module 'polls.urls' from 'ProjectFolder\\polls\\urls.py'>' does not appear to have any patterns in it. If you see valid patterns in the file then the issue is probably caused by a circular import.
This is how the official Django tutorial dictates it to be done. However, if I explicity import the polls/views.py file from the app, I can accomplish the task as follows:
from django.conf.urls import url
from django.contrib import admin
from polls import views
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
url(r'^polls/', views.index),
]
My immediate concern is the import of every app/urls file I ever create being necessitated by this approach, as well as the obvious divergence from the official Django instruction.
I hesitated to even ask this question because I feel that such a fundamental issue has bound to have an easy fix. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
To clarify, I can get around the error by explicitly importing the view files from apps. Whenever using the Django documentation-described approach of using the include() function I receive the error. I can appreciate the value of this function, and would like to know why is giving me the error described above.
Just writte urlpatterns = [ .. and not url_patterns in your poll.views.py.