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Python Django Basics What a View! First URL

Posted by kacperwikiel
kacperwikiel
15,795 Points

We need to add a URL for the view we created in the last challenge - was that hello_world view?

This task seems very unclear for me.

newspaper/urls.py 
from django.conf.urls import url
import views
urlpatterns = [
  url(r'^/$', views.hello_world)
]

4 Answers

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,454 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,454 Points

See commented code below.

from django.conf.urls import url

# Task 1 of 2: First, though, import the views module from the current
# directory. Remember, the current directory is referenced as a single
# dot or period.
from . import views

# Task 2 of 2: Now we need to make a url for our index view. Add a url
# to urlpatterns with a pattern for an empty string that points to the
# index view from views.

# The empty string regex can be represented using the start ('^') and
# ('$') anchors: r'^$'. The index view is found in the imported module
# 'views' using 'views.index'

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', views.index)
]
Iain Simmons
MOD
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points
Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

The first task of the challenge just asks you to 'import the views module from the current directory'. Once you do that, the next task will give you more detail on how to create the URL.

Ary de Oliveira
Ary de Oliveira
28,298 Points
Ary de Oliveira
Ary de Oliveira
28,298 Points

1 =from . import views

2 = url(r'^$', views.index)

Patric Daniel Pförtner
Patric Daniel Pförtner
1,542 Points
Patric Daniel Pförtner
Patric Daniel Pförtner
1,542 Points

Hi kacperwikiel,

You are very close to the answer, here is how I did it: 

from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
]

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