Attribute error in urls.py

Question

I am doing the django tutorial so I am literally cutting and pasting code. I keep getting this error on step 1

 from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.conf.urls import include

 from . import views

 urlpatterns = [
       url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
 ]

I am getting this error

 */django/theSite/polls/urls.py", line 8, in <module>
     url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
 AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'index'

edit: my views module is this

 from django.shortcuts import render

 # Create your views here.
 from django.http import HttpResponse


 def index(request):
     return HttpResponse("Hello, world. You're at the polls index.")

I cant see what I missed do you have any advice? Thanks!

Show your views.py file: there's like an error there. Also double check that both files are in the same (polls/) subdirectory. — , Jun 17 '16 at 21:58
Whoops, thanks guys here is my views.py and they are both in the /polls directory — Kyle Sponable, Jun 17 '16 at 22:03
yes, I never touched it and generated it with manage.py per the instructions — Kyle Sponable, Jun 17 '16 at 22:22
Clean up any `views.pyc` that might be lying around, just to be safe. And your relevant `views.py` is in the same directory as the `urls.py`, right? — rrauenza, Jun 17 '16 at 23:15
they are both under the /polls directory I deleted the .pyc files no change still getting the error — Kyle Sponable, Jun 17 '16 at 23:19
I'd do an `import pdb; pdb.set_trace()` after you `import views` and try to figure out what you're actually importing. You can [introspect](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1006169/how-do-i-look-inside-a-python-object) the module to see what it exports. — rrauenza, Jun 19 '16 at 05:52

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 25 '16 at 01:20

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The answer was indeed there had to be something wrong with my views. Deleting the django project and rebuilding the entire tutorial from scratch remedied the issue.

answered Jun 25 '16 at 01:20

Kyle Sponable

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