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Horai Nuri
Horai Nuri

Reputation: 5578

Django could not import [function]. The path must be fully qualified

I recently started Django and I'm having a problem rendering a "hello world" page, the issue goes like this : 

Could not import 'index'. The path must be fully qualified.

Django is not detecting my views.index function

here is the code:

src/urls.py

from django.conf.urls import url
from django.contrib import admin
from django.conf.urls import include

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
    url(r'^pages/', include('pages.urls')),
]

pages/urls.py

from django.conf.urls import url

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'', 'index', name="index"), #error
]

pages/views.py

from django.shortcuts import render

# Create your views here.
def index(request):
    context = {}
    return render('index.html', context)

I want to render the index.html, how can I do this?

--------------- UPDATE ---------------

CMD error

Unhandled exception in thread started by <function check_errors.<locals>.wrapper at 0x00000000044D70D0>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py", line 226, in wrapper
    fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\runserver.py", line 116, in inner_run
    self.check(display_num_errors=True)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 426, in check
    include_deployment_checks=include_deployment_checks,
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\checks\registry.py", line 75, in run_checks
    new_errors = check(app_configs=app_configs)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\checks\urls.py", line 10, in check_url_config
    return check_resolver(resolver)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\checks\urls.py", line 19, in check_resolver
    for pattern in resolver.url_patterns:
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\utils\functional.py", line 33, in __get__
    res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\urlresolvers.py", line 417, in url_patterns
    patterns = getattr(self.urlconf_module, "urlpatterns", self.urlconf_module)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\utils\functional.py", line 33, in __get__
    res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\urlresolvers.py", line 410, in urlconf_module
    return import_module(self.urlconf_name)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 109, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2254, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2237, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2226, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1200, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1129, in _exec
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1471, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 321, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "C:\Python34\Scripts\src\src\urls.py", line 26, in <module>
    url(r'^pages/', include('pages.urls')),
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\conf\urls\__init__.py", line 52, in include
    urlconf_module = import_module(urlconf_module)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 109, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2254, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2237, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2226, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1200, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1129, in _exec
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1471, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 321, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "C:\Python34\Scripts\src\pages\urls.py", line 5, in <module>
    url(r'^$', views.index, name="index"),
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'index'

added from pages import views in urls.py

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3185

Answers (1)

Alasdair
Alasdair

Reputation: 309009

In Django 1.8+, you should import the view and include the callable in your URL patterns.

from .views import index

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url(r'^$', index, name="index"),

Note that the second argument is now index, the view we have imported, instead of the string 'index'. I have also changed the regex so that it only matches the index page. Using '' would match every URL.

Another option would be to import the views module instead of the individual view. This will make it easier to include other views e.g. views.about or views.contact.

from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url(r'^$', views.index, name="index"),

Upvotes: 9

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