After upgrading to Django 4.0, I get the following error when running python manage.py runserver

 ... File "/path/to/myproject/myproject/urls.py", line 16, in <module> from django.conf.urls import url
ImportError: cannot import name 'url' from 'django.conf.urls' (/path/to/my/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/conf/urls/__init__.py)

My urls.py is as follows:

from django.conf.urls
from myapp.views import home
urlpatterns = [ url(r'^$', home, name="home"), url(r'^myapp/', include('myapp.urls'),
]

4 Answers

django.conf.urls.url() was deprecated in Django 3.0, and is removed in Django 4.0+.

The easiest fix is to replace url() with re_path(). re_path uses regexes like url, so you only have to update the import and replace url with re_path.

from django.urls import include, re_path
from myapp.views import home
urlpatterns = [ re_path(r'^$', home, name='home'), re_path(r'^myapp/', include('myapp.urls'),
]

Alternatively, you could switch to using path. path() does not use regexes, so you'll have to update your URL patterns if you switch to path.

from django.urls import include, path
from myapp.views import home
urlpatterns = [ path('', home, name='home'), path('myapp/', include('myapp.urls'),
]

If you have a large project with many URL patterns to update, you may find the django-upgrade library useful to update your urls.py files.

5

I think a quick fix to this problem is to do followings;

You can easily replace

from django.conf.urls import url

to this:

from django.urls import re_path as url

And keep the rest of code to be same as before. (Thanks @Alasdair)

See in django version 4.0 it will not work. So while installing Django in your Virtual Environment select this version

pip install django==3.2.10

This will definitely solve your error and in main urls.py do this:

from django.conf.urls import url

from django.urls import path,include

2

Fixed this by changing to...

from django.urls import re_path as url

and of course replacing re_path with url in urlpatterns

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