On 2013-08-20, at 9:02 PM, Diek Kearney <diekroguew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am going through the Tutorial Django 1.5 Tutorial Part 3, and up to the
> current point everything was running smoothly, then I hit a wall that I
> cannot figure out. Maybe I am too focused on following, anyways I need some
> help.
> ...
> The next step is "Take a look in your browser, at “/polls/34/”. It’ll run the
> detail() method and display whatever ID you provide in the URL. Try
> “/polls/34/results/” and “/polls/34/vote/” too – these will display the
> placeholder results and voting pages." I tried and nothing. It generates a
> 404 error. Where exactly is the 34 coming from? I like to think things
> through but as a beginner in django following a tutorial I need more when it
> comes to this section.
Hmm. This *is* confusing since the tutorial should call out the "34" as an
example but does not. And at that point in the tutorial it has not given you
instruction to enter a particular poll, and not shown you how to get the poll
id for any poll you actually did enter.
I was going to suggest that you go to "/polls" to see a list of available
polls, but at that point in the tutorial the view for that does not yet exist
so no luck there either.
You can try something like:
python manage.py shell
from polls.models import Poll
Poll.objects.all().values()
which will give you a keyword:value list of all fields in your poll model,
including the "id" field. That is the value to use in their example query, not
the arbitrary "34". Once you have the id (primary key) for a poll, you can try
the detailed view which they *have* defined!
You can also look in the database itself for the same info. Try
python manage.py dbshell
select * from polls_poll;
hth
- Tom
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