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Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

Create a view named index that returns an HttpResponse with the string "Hello Treehouse". - Django

I am having trouble understanding this. What am I doing wrong?

from django.http import HttpResponse


def index(request:
    return HttpResponse('Hello Treehouse')

Challenge 2 of 2 Django Basics https://teamtreehouse.com/library/django-basics/what-a-view/httpresponse

3 Answers

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

I was missing a right parenthesis on request.

from django.http import HttpResponse


def index(request):
    return HttpResponse('Hello Treehouse')
Mona Jalal
Mona Jalal
4,302 Points

How did you know that you should pass request to index? it is not mentioned!

from django.http import HttpResponse

def hello_world(request): return HttpResponse('Hello Treehouse')

Challenge Task 2 of 2

Great! Now create a view named index that returns an HttpResponse with the string "Hello Treehouse".

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def index(request):