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Dylan Davenport
Courses Plus Student 2,645 PointsHow to fix circular import??
After following this video I run the server and get this error:
ImproperlyConfigured(msg.format(name=self.urlconf_name)) django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: The included URLconf '<module 'courses.urls' from '/home/dylan/learning_site/courses/urls.py'>' does not appear to have any patterns in it. If you see valid patterns in the file then the issue is probably caused by a circular import.
Below is the code in my learning_site urls.py file. I cannot figure out why it says there is no pattern found. I've moved some things around in other files but I won't work. If I comment out url(r'^courses/', include('courses.urls')), it will work. Any ideas?
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/', admin.site.urls), url(r'^$', views.hello_world), ]
3 Answers
Ryan S
27,276 PointsHey Dylan,
I think the problem is the way you typed "url_patterns" in courses/urls.py.
It should be "urlpatterns" without the underscore.
Ryan S
27,276 PointsHi Dylan,
The error message seems to indicate that there is something wrong with your 'courses/urls.py', (not learning_site/urls.py). If commenting out the 'includes' line makes the error go away then I would suggest going through the courses urls.py. You can post the code for that file too if you need more help debugging.
Good luck.
Dylan Davenport
Courses Plus Student 2,645 PointsHere is the code for my courses urls.py file:
from django.conf.urls import url from . import views
url_patterns = [ url(r'^$', views.course_list), ]
I still can't figure it out haha.
Dylan Davenport
Courses Plus Student 2,645 PointsDylan Davenport
Courses Plus Student 2,645 PointsThat did the trick. Haha I can't believe I didn't notice that. Thank you.
Ryan S
27,276 PointsRyan S
27,276 PointsNo problem. I've made that same mistake before too. With standard Python naming conventions it seems natural to want to put an underscore in there.