obviously one needs to change: from django.http import HttpResponse,
to from django.http import HttpResponse, Http404 but that's a speed-bump that should not be in the tutorial. NameError at /polls/34/ global name 'Http404' is not defined Request Method: GET Request URL: http://localhost:8000/polls/34/ Django Version: 1.8 Exception Type: NameError Exception Value: global name 'Http404' is not defined Exception Location: /home/john/Documents/code/python/django/djangostart/polls/views.py in detail, line 19 Python Executable: /usr/bin/python Python Version: 2.7.6 Python Path: ['/home/john/Documents/code/python/django/djangostart', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Django-1.8-py2.7.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PILcompat', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntu-sso-client'] Server time: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 21:30:24 +0000 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/2f8405d8-8099-4182-8010-0701abbe44f4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

