Django SyntaxError on url tag in template

Question

I have a Django app that continues to be fussy about the {% url ... %} templating tag. I've fixed this before, but it now it's giving me a SyntaxError on loading the template.

Working backwards

Start with the relevant template lines:

<a href="{% url 'project-index' %}">
    <img src="{{ STATIC_URL }}images/logo.png" alt="Logo">
</a>

Function I'm trying to reverse() to in views.py :

def index (request):
    return render(request, "project/index.html", { "user" : request.user })

Url patterns ( urls.py ):

urlpatterns = patterns("project.views",
    url(r'^$', "index", name="project-index"),
    url(r'^login/?$', "login", name="project-login"),
    url(r'^logout/?$', "logout", name="project-logout"),
)

Main app included urls ( urls.py ):

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url('', include('project.urls')),
)

Here is a gist of the traceback .

The traceback doesn't show the exact line number for the template error, so here's what it gives me:

Error during template rendering
In template /Users/josh/Dropbox/Projects/app/sc/templates/layouts/base.html, error at line 47

Answer 1

The "old" url tag doesn't accept quotes but this will be deprecated. Use {% load url from future %} in Django <1.5. Check the Forwards compatibility section in documentation https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/templates/builtins/#url