Django Deprecation Warning or ImproperlyConfigured error - Passing a 3-tuple to django.conf.urls.include() is not supported

Question

I have a deprecation warning in Django 1.11:

RemovedInDjango20Warning: Passing a 3-tuple to django.conf.urls.include() is deprecated. Pass a 2-tuple containi         


        

Answer 1

As of Django 1.9, the old way of including the admin urls is deprecated. You should pass admin.site.urls directly to url(), without the call to include():

from django.contrib import admin

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
    ...
]

Answer 2

I struggled with this on my Macbook. I had a virtual environment activated with Django 2.0 installed. But django-admin was still pointing to a system level install from an old version of django. My solution was to uninstall the system level django. After that, django-admin was pointing to the newer virtualenv version.