Trouble With Tutorial #1 - NameError: name 'polls' is not defined

[michael....@farecompare.com]

Hi, 

I'm trying to learn Django and Python at the same time. So I realize this is a really simple issue for a beginner. But since I'm new to this, I could use a little help. 

Basically, I'm going through the tutorial here: 

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/intro/tutorial01/

I have gone through it up to the point where we create the polls app with the command: 

python manage.py startapp polls

I then created the models in polls/models.py by cutting and pasting from the article. 

Finally, to activate the new model, I went back to my settings.py file and added "polls" to my list of installed apps. However, when I run the command: 

python manage.py sql polls

I get the following error: 

Michael$ python manage.py sql polls

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>

    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.5.4-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 453, in execute_from_command_line

    utility.execute()

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.5.4-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 392, in execute

    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.5.4-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 263, in fetch_command

    app_name = get_commands()[subcommand]

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.5.4-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 109, in get_commands

    apps = settings.INSTALLED_APPS

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.5.4-py2.7.egg/django/conf/__init__.py", line 53, in __getattr__

    self._setup(name)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.5.4-py2.7.egg/django/conf/__init__.py", line 48, in _setup

    self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.5.4-py2.7.egg/django/conf/__init__.py", line 132, in __init__

    mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.5.4-py2.7.egg/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module

    __import__(name)

  File "/Users/Michael/dev/projects/python/ape_admin/ape_admin/settings.py", line 127, in <module>

    polls,

NameError: name 'polls' is not defined

I have a folder called "polls" that is in the same directory as my manage.py file. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Is there a step I'm missing that's not in the tutorial that a Python developer would just know automatically? 

Thanks,

Michael

[Daniel Roseman]

Sounds like you've put a line with just

   polls

in your INSTALLED_APPS, instead of

   "polls"

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DR. 

[michael....@farecompare.com]

Oh my gosh ... I did. LOL. Thanks. I'm an idiot.

[Sarthak Khandelwal]

can you send your file structure after this step?

I am having a similar problem, after adding views to url according to the tutorial in the documentation, when I was trying to run the server i was having a similar to your problem.

If anyone has completed this step please share the file structure to confirm if I am doing something wrong.

and yes I am not doing this error.

[Daniel Hepper]

Check out this repository: https://github.com/consideratecode/django-tutorial-step-by-step

It's not updated for Django 2.1 yet, but the differences should not matter in your case.

Hope that helps,

Daniel

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[BALA KRISHNAN]

you can change this url from your app 

from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin
from django.views.generic import TemplateView
from rest_framework import routers

from user_profile.views import UserViewSet

router = routers.DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'user', UserViewSet,)

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),

    # This is used for user reset password
    url(r'^', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),
    url(r'^rest-auth/', include('rest_auth.urls')),
    url(r'^rest-auth/registration/', include('rest_auth.registration.urls')),
    url(r'^account/', include('allauth.urls')),
    url(r'^api/',  include(router.urls)),
]

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[Aakash Choudhary]

Share the code I'll debug the error

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