Question

I am writing a GUI application using Django 1.1.1.

This is the views.py:

from django.http import HttpResponse

def mainpage(request):
    f=open('pages/index.html','r').readlines()
    out=''''''
    for line in file:
        out+=line

    print out
    return HttpResponse(out)

I am trying to load the contents of index.html which is inside a folder pages inside the GUI application folder.

My project’s urls.py is

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from gui.views import *

urlpatterns = patterns('',

    (r'^/$', mainpage)   
)

When I run the server I get a 404 error for the root site.
How can I load the index.html file through views?

Answer 1

Got it! 😉

It seems that the mainpage function actually runs on the urls.py (as it is imported from the views.py) file so the path I must provide is gui/pages/index.html. I still had a problem, ‘type object not iterable’, but the following worked:

def mainpage(request):
    f=open('gui/pages/index.html','r').readlines()
    return HttpResponse(f)

And url pattern was r’^$’ so it worked on http://localhost:8080/ itself.