Django use of url

Question

I'm trying to use the following type approach in an .html file:

<a href="{% url xxx.views.login %}">Login</a>

where I have in urls.py the following:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # Examples:
    (r'^login/$', 'xxx.views.login'),

But I get the following error:

Could not import xxx.views.accounts. View does not exist in module xxx.views.

Not sure if this is something pretty obvious. Is this the correct format for urls?

If I try in urls.py:

(r'^login/$', 'xxx.views.login', name='login'),

with in the .html file:

<a href="{% url 'login' %}">Login</a>

I get the following error:

SyntaxError
Exception Value:    
invalid syntax (urls.py, line 13)

If I change the .html file to:

<a href="{% url login %}">Login</a>

I get:

Reverse for 'login' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{}' not found.

Answer 1

try this:

<a href="{% url 'xxx.views.login' %}"> Login </a>

but the best would be to name the url:

urls.py

url(r'^login/$', 'xxx.views.login', name="login"),

template.html

<a href="{% url login %}">Login</a>

Since 1.5:

<a href="{% url 'login' %}">Login</a>

Answer 2

The error is not with the login URL. It only happens there because the url reverse functionality triggers the import of all your URLs. There is a problem with the URL that references accounts. Does that view actually exist?