Reputation: 41

Django first app from . import views issue

***SOLVED: I was using Sublime Text 3 as an IDE and it didn't like the dot in 'from . import views'. I switched to Visual Studio Code and everything is working fine. Thanks to everyone that responded with suggestions and helped!

I'm learning Django by using the Writing your first Django app documentation from the site. I have edited three files.

In the file urls.py in the polls folder:

from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.index, name='index'),
]

In the urls.py in the mysite folder:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('polls/', include('polls.urls')),
]

In the views.py in the polls folder:

from django.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):
    return HttpResponse('Hello once again.')

I'm using Python 3.7 and Django 2.1.2, could an updated version of either affect this?

Here is error I get from trying to run the server:

File "D:\DjangoPractice\mysite\polls.urls.py", line5, in <module> path('', views.index, name='index'), AttributeError: module 'polls.views' has no attribute 'index'

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Upvotes: 4

Answers (4)

TrustCode

Reputation: 11

I doubt if it was an editor issue like you mentioned. It's not a sublime or a VS Code problem. The problem came up because of the way you called the index function.

I just feel it's better to make sure we got it all right for posterity's sake. Many will come this way for solutions in future.

Upvotes: 0