OK, I solved my problem. I now understand reverse lookups well enough
to be embarrassed by the code below. Sorry to have bothered you.
Rodney
On Aug 27, 10:39 am, Rodney Topor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi. Sorry to botther the group again. I'm working through the Weblog
> example in 'Practical Django Projects'. Yet again, reverse URL lookup
> errors prove to be the hardest to debug. In class Entry I have
> defined
>
> def get_absolute_url(self):
> return "/weblog/%s/%s/" % (self.pub_date.strftime("%Y/%m/%d"),
> self.slug)
>
> (Not good style, I know, but you have to start somewhere.)
>
> In template entry_archive.html, I've tried the following three ways of
> getting the URL for a particular entry:
>
> <p><a href="{% url entry.get_absolute_url %}">Read full entry...</
> a></p>
> <p><a href="{% url entry_detail entry.pub_date|date:"y/m/
> d",entry.slug %}">Read full entry...</a></p>
> <p><a href="/weblog/{{ entry.pub_date|date:"Y/m/d" }}/
> {{ entry.slug }}/">Read full entry...</a></p>
>
> The first of these fails with the error message:
>
> TemplateSyntaxError at /weblog/
> Caught an exception while rendering: Reverse for
> 'weblog.entry.get_absolute_url' not found.
>
> The second fails with a similar entry. But the third method works.
> (I know it's bad style - hence my question.)
>
> So can anyone explain what I am doing wrong, please?
>
> I have defined the app Coltrane at the same level in the file system
> as the project Weblog. Is it significant that the error message
> refers ti weblog.entry and not coltrane.entry? That also looks wrong
> to me.
>
> This is with version 1.0-beta_1-SVN-8430.
>
> Thanks.
> Rodney
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