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Hi Karen,

On 10/11/2011 06:21 PM, Karen Tracey wrote:
> One thing that I think should be added before commit is a note in the
> tutorial along the lines of "what if startproject didn't actually do
> what we are saying it did?" and explaining that the structure has
> recently changed and if you didn't get the structure described here than
> you are likely using an older version of the code than the documentation
> you are reading and you should get the two in sync.
> 
> This was done back in the day of changing maxlength to max_length, and 
> that note stayed in the tutorial a laughably long time after the change
> was no longer "recent", but it likely prevented lots of questions and
> duplicate bug reports about the tutorial being wrong.

Interesting, I didn't realize we had precedent for doing that
explicitly. I've added just such a note to the patch, thanks for the
suggestion.

Perhaps we should have done this for the "from django.conf.urls import
url, patterns" change, too :-)

Carl
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