Django url - page not found

Question

I have been doing the Django Basics course but running locally rather than in workspaces and am having some issues with app urls. 
I am getting a 404 on my app url, but admin and root url are working fine. 
learning_site/courses/urls.py
```python
from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$ ', views.course_list),
]
```
learning_site/courses/views.py
```python
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.shortcuts import render
from .models import Course
def course_list(request):
    courses = Course.objects.all()
    output = ', '.join([str(course) for course in courses])
    return HttpResponse(output)
```
learningsite/learningsite/urls.py
```python
from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^courses/', include('courses.urls')),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r'^$', views.hello_world),
]
```
learningsite/learningsite/views.py
```python
from django.http import HttpResponse
def hello_world(request):
    return HttpResponse('Hello World')
```
the error I keep getting when viewing http://127.0.0.1:8000/courses

Using the URLconf defined in learning_site.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:
    1. ^courses/
    2. ^admin/
    3. ^$
The current URL, courses, didn't match any of these.

learningsite/learningsite/settings.py - Application definition
python
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'courses',
]

Really stuck with this. I've tried checking against code in workspaces and can't seem to see any differences. Surely I'm missing something simple.

Chris Freeman · Accepted Answer

It might be as simple as the removing the extra trailing space in the regex. 
Python
urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', views.course_list),  #

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Django url - page not found

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