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5588	wildcard import in urls.py is actually required	frank.hoffsummer@…	nobody	"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.


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