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Django urls.py import not detecting

I have a working api, and I am writing a UI to the API, as a separate application in the same project. My project urls.py looks like this
from django.conf.urls import *
import search
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^api/search$', search.validation),
url(r'^ui', include('ui.urls')),
)
My UI app's urls.py looks like this
from django.conf.urls import *
import views
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^ui/$', views.search_template),
)
However, when I am trying to access with my browser(domain.com:8000/ui), I am getting an error.
Using the URLconf defined in api.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:
^api/search$
^ui ^ui$
The current URL, ui, didn't match any of these.
But if I use the below mapping in the main project's urls.py, it works.
(r'^ui$', ui.views.user_template),
I tried clearing the urls.pyc to make sure it is not stale, but it still persists. Please let me know what am I doing wrong.

You shouldn't repeat ui regex in the app's urls.py:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^$', views.search_template),
)

Django "homepage" app urls.py issue

I am pretty new to Django and when I laid my site out I did it in the following way:
The project is a "portal" of sorts,
App 1 "home" is the app that houses the homepage, login, registration
and other "site-wide" functionality
App 2 "inventory" is a basic asset inventory
App 3 "dashboard" is a set of status dashboards based on assets in the inventory
Right now I am trying to add the login functionality and I have a main project urls.py that looks like this:
File: /portal/urls.py
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^$', include('home.urls'), name='home'),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls), name='admin'),
url(r'^inventory/', include('inventory.urls'), name='inventory'),
url(r'^dashboard/', include('dashboard.urls'), name='dashboard'),
url(r'^capacity/', include('capacity.urls'), name='capacity'),
)
My plan is to use the inclusion of .../home/urls.py to manage any site-wide functionality such as logging in, registering, etc.
Right now the home index view shows just fine, but anything else in .../home/urls.py gives me a 404
File: /home/urls.py
from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
from home import views
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^test/$', views.index, name='home_test'),
url(r'^ajax_login/$', views.ajax_login, name='ajax_login'),
url(r'^$', views.index, name='home_index'),
)
At this point I suppose my question is two-fold: Am I approaching this correctly? If so, how can I get the desired functionality? If not, how should I change the way things are set up/laid out to do it the correct "best practices" way?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT
Got it working thanks to dt0xff and holdenweb, accepted holdenweb's answer since it was more accurate including the need to put the home url inclusion below the rest.
Here is my new portal/urls.py file for reference
File: /portal/urls.py
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls), name='admin'),
url(r'^inventory/', include('inventory.urls'), name='inventory'),
url(r'^dashboard/', include('dashboard.urls'), name='dashboard'),
url(r'^capacity/', include('capacity.urls'), name='capacity'),
url(r'^', include('home.urls'), name='home'),
)

The issue is with your first pattern, which will only match the empty URL. So any empty URL will cause the home/urls.py URLs to be analyzed, but only the empty one will match even in that.
Unfortunately if there is no common prefix then that pattern "^" will match every URL (since they all start at the beginning ...).
So you should either use a common prefix for all the pages, or put the home URL specification at the end to give the other URLs a chance to match before it is tested.

Django looks in urls like this:
Get list of root urls - portal/urls
Find first, which matches to current url
If it is include, go to included urls, cutting off matched part
Your problem is here
url(r'^$', include('home.urls'), name='home'),
I mean, here
'^$'
You want url to match "start and then end of url". It works good with root(dunno.com/), but not with others, because url will contain something more...
So, just remove $ and you are fine
url(r'^', include('home.urls'), name='home'),

you never need to add regex($) at project/urls.py

urls.py in django throws "No module found"

I have a question about urls.py in Django. I am building a blog from scratch as a way of learning Django myself. In the main urls.py file, I have specified the include path to my app's urls.py.
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^', include('myblog.urls')),
)
In the app (called myblog), the urls.py reads as follows:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from models import blogmodel
from django.contrib import admin
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^login/', include(admin.site.urls)),
(r'^$', include('myblog.views.getLatest')),
)
where getLAtest is the function in my views.py. The error says No module named getLatest
Here's my views.py,
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from myblog.models import blogdb
def getLatest(request):
post = blogdb.objects.all()
sorted_post = post.order_by('-served_date')
return render_to_response('blogs.html', {'posts':sorted_post})
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance..

You are using the wrong directive; include() is used to include another package; Django will look for a urls.py within the package myblog.views.getLatest when you use that directive.
You want to name the view itself instead:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^login/', include(admin.site.urls)),
(r'^$', 'myblog.views.getLatest'),
)
Note: no include() is being used.

Try updating this:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^login/', include(admin.site.urls)),
(r'^$', include('myblog.views.getLatest')),
)
to this:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^getLatest/$', 'myblog.views.getLatest'),
)
include is meant to read in another urls.py file, where you you are wanting to execute a specific view function.

Django Tutorial Part 3 - Template

I am new to Django and Python. So please excuse if my question is trivial.
This is in reference to Django Docs, tutorial part 3
In Section Decoupling the URLConfs, the authors says to to have the following in mysite/urls.py:
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
and the below code to be part of polls/urls.py
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
urlpatterns = patterns('polls.views',
url(r'^$', 'index'),
url(r'^(?P<poll_id>\d+)/$', 'detail'),
url(r'^(?P<poll_id>\d+)/results/$', 'results'),
url(r'^(?P<poll_id>\d+)/vote/$', 'vote'),
)
I HAVE BEEN WADING THRU THIS TUTORIAL BY HAVING THE URLS.PY IN Polls DIRECTORY.
IS THERE MYSITE DIRECTORY AS WELL AS POLLS DIRECTORY THAT HAS URLS.PY?
Thanks in Advance

One of the things about django is that it prides itself on its ability to have apps that are pluggable and modular. The urls.py inside the mysite directory is your PROJECT wide url conf.
This line
url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')),
tells your PROJECT that you have an app/directory/python package that has a urls.py file. In this file which lives in mysite/polls/urls.py you will have the url conf for the polls APPLICATION that will live at /polls/whatever in your browser.

I'm new in python. Coincidentally I just went through the entire tutorial by chance a few hours ago. Your urls.py should only be located in /mysite/mysite/ directory.
This is where my urls.py is located
/home/mattrising/desktop/mysite/mysite#
Hope that helps :-)
Edit: your polls directory should NOT contain urls.py file by default.

No module named urls

I'm following the Django Tutorials, I'm at the end of part 3, at Decoupling the URLconfs, at http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/intro/tutorial03/#intro-tutorial03 and I'm getting a "No module named urls" error message.
When I change:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('mysite.polls.views',
(r'^polls/$', 'index'),
(r'^polls/(?P<poll_id>\d+)/$', 'detail'),
(r'^polls/(?P<poll_id>\d+)/results/$', 'results'),
(r'^polls/(?P<poll_id>\d+)/vote/$', 'vote'),
(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
to:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^polls/', include('mysite.polls.urls')),
(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
I changed include('mysite.polls.urls')), to include(mysite.polls.urls)),, but it still didn't work.
How to solve this problem?
UPDATE 2: at mysite/polls/urls.py is
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
urlpatterns = patterns('mysite.polls.views',
(r'^$', 'index'),
(r'^(?P<poll_id>\d+)/$', 'detail'),
(r'^(?P<poll_id>\d+)/results/$', 'results'),
(r'^(?P<poll_id>\d+)/vote/$', 'vote'),
)
UPDATE 4: the whole project is at
http://www.mediafire.com/?t1jvomjgjz1

I had a similar problem in my project root ... django complained that it couldn't find the module mysite.urls.
Turns out my ROOT_URLCONF variable in settings.py, which was set up using the default values, was set incorrect. Instead of "mysite.urls", it should have been simply "urls"
I changed it, and voila, it worked.

I can't re-produce the import error on my machine using your project files (Windows 7, Django 1.1.1, Python 2.6.4). Everything imported fine but the urls were not specified properly (like the tutorial shows). Fixing the code:
/mysite/urls.py:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^polls/', include('mysite.polls.urls')),
(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
/mysite/polls/urls.py:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
urlpatterns = patterns('mysite.polls.views',
(r'^$', 'index'),
(r'^(?P<poll_id>\d+)/$', 'detail'),
(r'^(?P<poll_id>\d+)/results/$', 'results'),
(r'^(?P<poll_id>\d+)/vote/$', 'vote'),
)
Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/polls/ - I received a TemplateDoesNotExist exception because the template file is missing.
I'm afraid my answer might be to reboot and try it again. ;)

Is there an __init__.py inside mysite/polls/ directory?

I also had a weird problem with "No module named mysite.urls".
The admin site was down and the my whole site.
The solution, after a few hours of searching the web, was on my side : Django is caching some of the settings in a file that he knows from an environment variable.
I just closed my terminal in which i was doing the runnserver thing and opened a new one.

I did exactly the same thing. Python newbie mistake by reading ahead. I created a file call "polls.url" thinking it was some sort of special django template file.
I misunderstood the text:
"Now that we've decoupled that, we need to decouple the polls.urls URLconf by removing the leading "polls/" from each line, and removing the lines registering the admin site. Your polls.urls file should now look like this:
"
It should really read:
"Now that we've decoupled that, we need to decouple the polls.urls URLconf by removing the leading "polls/" from each line, and removing the lines registering the admin site. Your polls/urls.py file should now look like this:
"

Late to the party but I fixed my problem by correcting a typo inside settings.py INSTALLED_APPS. I had 'webbapp' instead of 'webapp' so you might want to check on that as well (for people still having the problem)

Like Ryan Bagwell, problem was (at least temporarily) solved by changing ROOT_URLCONF in myproject/myproject/settings.py.
I had to add "myproject" to ROOT_URLCONF to have there this:
"%s.myproject.urls" % PROJECT_APP