id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
2875	[patch] Bad URLPattern results in potentially misleading exception	Matt McClanahan <cardinal@…>	Adrian Holovaty	"In django/core/urlresolvers.py, get_mod_func() raises a ValueError exception if the callback does not contain any dots.  This rare situation is almost certainly caused by the user specifying the view callback incorrectly (E.g, 'edit_object' instead of 'myproject.myapp.views.edit_object')

To clarify the cause of the error, this patch makes get_mod_func() return the full callback string as the module name and a blank function name.  The calling functions then raise either a ViewDoesNotExist, or in the case of RegexURLPattern.reverse(), a NoReverseMatch.

While this bug only affects the URL which was specified incorrectly in the app/project it belongs to, it also has the slightly more serious effect of completely breaking the admin's view documentation."	defect	closed	Core (Other)		normal	fixed			Unreviewed	1	0	0	0	0	0