ImportError in simple setup

[henrik@…]

First, let me just say that I might be doing something wrong and that this is not a bug. But after talking to some people on IRC it seems that it should work, at least no-one said "oh, you cant do that".

Reproduce what Im doing:

 $ django-admin.py startproject he
 $ export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=he.settings.main

Then create a file:

 $ cat > he/foo.py
 from django.utils.httpwrappers import HttpResponse
 def bar(request):
     return HttpResponse("foobar")
 ^D

 $ python -c 'import he.foo; he.foo.bar()'
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<string>", line 1, in ?
 TypeError: bar() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given)

Obviously Python can find the file. Then put this into he/settings/urls/main.py:

 (r'^$', include('he.foo.bar')),

Then run "django-admin.py runserver" and point the browser to see this error:

 Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 56, in get_response
    callback, param_dict = resolver.resolve(path)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 64, in resolve
    sub_match = pattern.resolve(new_path)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 62, in resolve
    for pattern in self.url_patterns:

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 79, in _get_url_patterns
    self.url_patterns = self.urlconf_module.urlpatterns

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 74, in _get_urlconf_module
    self.urlconf_module = __import__(self.urlconf_name, '', '', [''])

 ImportError: No module named bar

[henrik@…]

Forgot to put in there that Ive properly edited he/settings/main.py and changed to sqlite3 etc, and run "django-admin.py init".

[anonymous]

Seems that this also is the case with PostgreSQL.

[Jacob]

include() is for including other URL confs; don't use it for a simple view (see NewbieMistakes). Please don't use the ticket system for support requests; ask on the mailing list or on IRC.