Django rest framework quickstart tutorial error The included URLconf 'tutorial.urls'

Question

I tried to complete the drf quickstart tutorial from https://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/quickstart/

using

Python 3.6.1

django-rest-framework 3.9.4

Django 2.2.1

but when I run

   python manage.py runserver

I got an error

  File "E:\Dropbox\python\drf2\venv\lib\site-packages\django\urls\resolvers.py", line 588, in url_patterns
    raise ImproperlyConfigured(msg.format(name=self.urlconf_name))
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: The included URLconf 'tutorial.urls' does not appear to have any patterns in it. If you see valid patterns in the file then the issue is probably caused by a circular import.

project structure:

the content of tutorial/urls.py

from django.urls import include, path
from rest_framework import routers
from tutorial.quickstart import views

router = routers.DefaultRouter()
router.register(r'users', views.UserViewSet)
router.register(r'groups', views.GroupViewSet)

# Wire up our API using automatic URL routing.
# Additionally, we include login URLs for the browsable API.
urlpatterns = [
    path('', include(router.urls)),
    path('api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls', namespace='rest_framework'))
]

@JPG I copy-pasted it from the tutorial as the last attempt to make it — arpa
@arpa if you want to follow that tutorial, your project structure is incorrect. — Gasanov

Linovia Linovia · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-16T06:24:54

Your quickstart folder doesn't look at the right location. It should be at the same level as settings.py.

You can move the folder the quickstart to drf2/tutorial/tutorial and that would fix things.

NB, you likely missed the trailing dot in django-admin startproject tutorial .

Django rest framework quickstart tutorial error The included URLconf 'tutorial.urls'

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