Thanks, that was the issue. I looked back at the generic view
tutorial, and saw the code was structured slightly differently, which
allowed them to put the view in a string.
I also found this post in django-dev, which might be the one that you
saw earlier referencing generic views+newforms:
http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/618f7582c5e225ce/c3f254bc3559dfdc
Thanks!
On Jul 9, 12:04 pm, Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It took me a minute to see it, but "str object not callable" is
> referring to the fact that your URL pattern is providing a string as
> its 2nd argument and "delete_object" (the string) cannot be imported
> and called.
>
> You can either:
>
> 1) Use the actual view you imported (i.e. remove the single quotes).
>
> 2) Specific the 2nd argument in the URL pattern as the full path to
> the delete view: "django.views.generic.create_update.delete_object"
>
> I saw a reference on Django devs mailing list that these will be
> updated *very soon* to use newforms.
>
> -Rob
>
> On Jul 8, 7:14 pm, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble using the deletegenericview in
> > Django SVN. I have the following entry in my urlpatterns:
> > from django.views.generic.create_update import *
> > urlpatterns = patterns('',
> > ...
> > (r'^calendar/delete/(?P<object_id>\d+)/$','delete_object',
> > {'model':Event,'post_delete_redirect':'/calendar/'}),
> > ...
> > )
>
> > And in a template, I have the following hyperlink:
> > <a href="/calendar/delete/{{event.id}}">Delete Event</a>
>
> > When I click on the link in the above template, I get the following:
> > TypeError at /calendar/delete/1/
> > 'str' object is not callable
> > /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py in
> > get_response, line 86
>
> > I've tried various different ways of calling thisgenericview, but
> > none seem to work.
> > As a side note, is it worth usinggenericviews such as create and
> > update since they still use oldforms?
>
> > Thanks for any help.
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