Django Error u“'polls” is not a registered namespace

Question

Yesterday I was working on my first app using this tutorial. It\'s a Poll and Choice app. The first page displays the question and when you click on the question it\'s suppose t

Answer 1

The problem is in the tutorial. While adding the namespace( in your case 'myapp') to your URLconf, the tutorial uses the following code of line:

app_name = 'myapp'

The Django framework for some reason treats it as a unicode string. Instead please enclose the name of your app in double quotes instead of single quotes. For example,

app_name = "myapp"

This will most certainly solve your problem. I had the same problem and doing so solved it.