en/dev/topics/auth/ - login.html syntax

[anonymous]

This line in the sample registration/login.html files is throwing an exception NoReverseMatch:

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

Removing the single quotes from the url tag fixes it.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

It isn't clear exactly which "sample" template you're referring to. However, I'm going to guess you're looking at an example or documentation for 1.5 (i.e., current development branch), and deploying using 1.3 or 1.4.

The "with quotes" syntax is now the preferred syntax for the URL tag. If you're on Django 1.5, it's the only allowed syntax; if you're on Django 1.4 or 1.3, the new syntax can be enabled by adding {% load url from future %} at the top of your template.

Feel free to reopen if you can show a specific location that the new syntax is being suggested in documentation for 1.4 or 1.3 *without* the from future load statement.