views.py DetailView

[pilks7]

Spent the longest time on this, I had to specifically import Detail View like so
from django.views.generic.detail import DetailView

from django.views import generic

doesn't seem to work, throwing this:

 class BookDetailView(DetailView):
NameError: name 'DetailView' is not defined

I'm using python 3.6 and django 2.02 (on ubuntu 16.04)

[hamishwillee]

Are you saying that you imported the requirements.txt into your environment and built this project as-is from github and it didn't work?

[pilks7]

No that's not what I'm saying. Just saying I followed the tutorial exactly up to this point and it wouldn't work, even when I copy/pasted the views.py verbatim. I had to use the specific import, that's all

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[hamishwillee]

Many apologies. I completely forgot about this.

The documentation does correctly show how to do this:

from django.views import generic

class BookDetailView(generic.DetailView):
    model = Book

As you see, the Detail view is in django.views.generic, not in django.views.generic.detail