Django: First App: Why do I continue to get "hello world"?

Hi cb123,

I think you are looking at the root url of your project, which still loads the hello world view. If you add /courses in the url bar it loads your course_list view.

This is because when you load your site it is going to the root url (the path represented by the regex ^$) which is a match for the urls.py in the learning_site directory.

To get the courses_list view you need to go to the url /courses/. This is because the urls.py file in your courses directory only gets loaded when the url matches /courses (this is the effect of line 21 in your root urls.py). Once the first part of the url matches /courses, then your other urls.py file gets loaded and checks whether the rest of hte url is empty.

Hope that makes sense.

Cheers

Alex