Question

I keep getting the following error message when trying to access the personal website I’m trying to build:

TypeError: render_page() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given) 

I don’t even know how, as I’m using render_to_response() instead of calling render_page() directly, so I assume this kind of thing would be taken care of?

views.py:

from django.http import HttpResponse,Http404
from django.template import Template,Context
from django.template.loader import get_template
from django.shortcuts import *

navs = {"About Me":"/aboutme/","Teaching":"/teaching/","CV":"/cv/","Online":"/epresence/",
"Links":"/links/","Main":"/main/"}
def render_page(request,page):
    if page == "epresence":
        return epresence(request)
    elif page == "links":
        return links(request)
    elif page == "teaching":
        return teaching(request)
    else:
        return other(request,page)
def epresence(request):
    pagetitle = "My Online Presence"
    sites = {...}
    navitems = globals().get("navs")
    return render_to_response("epresence.html",locals())
def links(request):
    pagetitle = "Links"
    navitems = globals().get("navs")
    friends = {...
}
    idols = {...
}
    resources = {...}
    return render_to_response("links.html",locals())
def teaching(request):
    pagetitle = "Teaching"
    navitems = globals().get("navs")
    teach = [...]
    learn = [...]
    return render_to_response("teaching.html",locals())
def other(request,page):
    pages = {"about":"About Me","me":"About Me","cv":"CV","home":"Home","main":"Home",}
    patetitle = pages.get(page)
    navitems = globals().get("navs")
    return render_to_response("main.html",locals())

urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from personalsite.views import *
# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^.*$',render_page),
)

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I’ve no idea what “I’m using render_to_response() instead of calling render_page() directly” means. You’re calling render_page from your urlconf – however, you’re not passing it any of the URL, because you’re not using a group in the regex.

You should be capturing the parameter like this:

url(r'^(?P<page>.*)$',render_page),

(Note however this is a fairly strange thing to want to do. The whole point of the URLconf is to match against specific URLs and dispatch to specific view functions: so that you match epresence in the urlconf and get it to call the epresence function directly. Also, you should look into context processors to pass your navs dict to every template.)