wildcard import in urls.py is actually required

[frank.hoffsummer@…]

I just learned the hard way that messing with

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *

in your urls.py can bring about all kinds of weired behaviour. You lose the ability to debug and no errorpages (404, 500 etc) are shown

I made the mistake to change the import to a more explicit one in my urls.py

from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, include 

since it was only those two that I needed. big mistake!

it should be noted in the docs somewhere that wildcard import from urls.default is actually required for things to work.

[James Bennett]

Well. Actually it's not required. It's just required that you have a deeper understanding of the names Django expects to find in a root URLConf ;)

Not sure how we should document this, though.

[anonymous]

See 5350, too.

[Thomas Guettler (Home)]

See #5350, too

[Michael Radziej]

I'd say that if you need to import more than your code requires, this must be documented. Users can't be expected to know this a priori ;-)

It could be nicely documented in url_dispatch.txt.

[Collin Grady]

#5350 was the earlier one, and it includes a patch, so it probably should've been the one left open :)