NoReverseMatch at /courses/1/2/

Hi Konrad,

This was a tricky one to debug, and I learned something about Django in the process. The main issue is that once you assign a name or a namespace to a url pattern, Django is going to be looking for that particular "namespace:name" when it tries to match patterns. You won't be able to call the view by chaining together it's location, (eg. "courses.views.course_list"). I didn't know that Django enforced this.

In your learning_site/urls.py, you have actually copied and pasted the same code twice. The second instance of "urlpatterns" overrides the first, and in the second you have defined the courses' namespace as "courses".

In courses/urls.py, you have named the call to the "course_list" view as "list".

So in layout.html when you are adding the anchor tag, you need to refer to the view by its 'namespace:name'.

Eg.

<a href="{% url 'courses:list' %}">Courses</a>

As of your current workspace, it looks like you forgot to include the namespace.

If you want to try it with your original "href" attribute that you mentioned in your question, you will need to delete the namespace and name in both learning_site/urls.py, and courses/urls.py.

In the video, after Kenneth assigns the names and namespace to the url patterns, he changes the hrefs accordingly.

Hope this helps.