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debzghosh
debzghosh

Reputation: 33

decoupling the URLConfs(Python/Django): current URL does not match any URL pattern after ERROR

I have just started teaching myself python/django and have been following the django tutorials. I have got stuck at the decoupling of URLConfs. I have copied the code to respective files from the tutorial but I am getting this error:

Using the URLconf defined in mysite.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:

    ^polls/ ^/$
    ^polls/ ^/(?P<poll_id>\d+)/$
    ^polls/ ^/(?P<poll_id>\d+)/results/$
    ^polls/ ^/(?P<poll_id>\d+)/vote/$
    ^admin/
The current URL, polls/, didn't match any of these.

I have got urls.py in both mysite and polls folder as asked by the tutorial (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial03/)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1222

Answers (1)

danpalmer
danpalmer

Reputation: 2173

Short answer: remove the first / in the URL configs on polls.urls.

Long explanation: The problem here, as Julian mentioned in the comments is that you have an extra slash in the URL configs.

When you have the following in your root URL config:

url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')),

This essentially 'chops off' the polls/ part of the URL string and passes the rest on to polls.urls. So if you try and get the URL polls/13/results, the polls/ will be handled by my site.urls and the rest will be given to polls.urls.

Your polls.urls file seems to be requiring a preceding / on the string however, and because this has been removed already it doesn't exist. The caret ^ character means the beginning of the string so all of your configs at the moment require that they start with a / at the point that polls.urls receives them, they shouldn't do this otherwise you are expecting the following:

/polls//13/results

instead of:

/polls/13/results

I hope this answers everything!

Upvotes: 2

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