Small error in login form example

[yuval.baror@…]

The login form example contains the following line:

<form method="post" action="{% url 'django.contrib.auth.views.login' %}">

When I tried using this I got an error:
NoReverseMatch while rendering: Reverse for django.contrib.auth.views.login

After searching online I saw an answer on stackoverflow:
​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4578685/noreversematch-while-rendering-reverse-for-django-contrib-auth-views-login

The solution suggested there (removing the single quotes around the url) worked for me.
Perhaps it would be best to update the example to prevent others from encountering the same error.

[anonymous]

The documentation with the error is here:
​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#django.contrib.auth.views.login

[Karen Tracey]

That syntax for the url tag is new with 1.3, the need for the new syntax is apparent in the referenced doc by the inclusion of:

{% load url from future %}

in the full example. So if you are actually running 1.3 I'm guessing you did not include that load tag in your template. You'd also see the same error if you are running an earlier version of Django.