Typo in the tutorial, misleading?

[elgin@…]

In Part 4 of the "Writing Your First Django App" tutorial, near the end where we are told to edit our urls.py file to properly make use of the "generic views system," the "name=" parameter of the url() function says name='poll_results'. Shouldn't that say name='polls_results' ? That's what I changed it to in order to fix the problem I was having. It works perfectly with that change.

[Julien Phalip]

Hey, thanks for the report! However, I think that the documentation is actually correct. If you look a bit above on that same page, there is:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ...
    url(r'^(?P<pk>\d+)/results/$',
        DetailView.as_view(
            model=Poll,
            template_name='polls/results.html'),
        name='poll_results'),
    ....
)

(I've removed the irrelevant code and replaced it with dots '....').

The url name is in fact 'poll_results'. I'm not sure exactly why it's failing for you. I recommend you to ask for help on django-users (​http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/topics) or in the #django channel on Freenode. If it does appear that there is a problem with the doc, then please feel free to reopen this ticket with more information. Cheers!