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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. 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.