"name 'django' not defined" error when using the generic login view?

Question

I'm am trying to use the generic login view provided by django and this is my urls.py:

url(r'^login/$', django.contrib.auth.views.login),

When I run the server and go to

127.0.0.1 

it gives me a

NameError at /

saying

name 'django' is not defined

when I remove 'django' and just leave it at

contrib.auth.views.login

it gives a

NameError at /

saying

name 'contrib' is not defined

any idea why and how to fix this?

Answer 1

Instead of django.contrib.auth.views.login, try at the top of your urls.py stating: from django.contrib.auth import views. Then, in your url login pattern, where you originally put django.contrib.auth.views.login, replace it with views.login. If this doesn't work, please post your full urls.py.