Fixed #4409 -- Fixed a typo in tutorial (thanks, mitch.hunt.007@gmail.com

). Also updated the reverse() documentation to reflect that it can take
function references or strings for function names.


git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@5401 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/docs/tutorial04.txt b/docs/tutorial04.txt
index 8aa9379c91..5cc12c445d 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial04.txt
+++ b/docs/tutorial04.txt
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ So let's create a ``vote()`` function in ``mysite/polls/views.py``::
             # Always return an HttpResponseRedirect after successfully dealing
             # with POST data. This prevents data from being posted twice if a
             # user hits the Back button.
-            return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('results', args=(p.id,)))
+            return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('mysite.polls.views.results', args=(p.id,)))
 
 This code includes a few things we haven't covered yet in this tutorial:
 
@@ -104,7 +104,8 @@ This code includes a few things we haven't covered yet in this tutorial:
         '/polls/3/results/'
 
       ... where the ``3`` is the value of ``p.id``. This redirected URL will
-      then call the ``'results'`` view to display the final page.
+      then call the ``'results'`` view to display the final page. Note that
+      you need to use the full name of the view here (including the prefix).
 
       For more information about ``reverse()``, see the `URL dispatcher`_
       documentation.
diff --git a/docs/url_dispatch.txt b/docs/url_dispatch.txt
index 1a2efe605a..fe7c697f8a 100644
--- a/docs/url_dispatch.txt
+++ b/docs/url_dispatch.txt
@@ -564,10 +564,11 @@ code, Django provides the ``django.core.urlresolvers.reverse()``. The
 
     reverse(viewname, urlconf=None, args=None, kwargs=None)
 
-The view name is either the function name or the `URL pattern name`_.
-Normally you will not need to worry about the ``urlconf`` parameter and will
-only pass in the positional and keyword arguments to use in the url matching.
-For example::
+The view name is either the function name (either a function reference, or the
+string version of the name, if you used that form in ``urlpatterns``) or the
+`URL pattern name`_.  Normally you will not need to worry about the
+``urlconf`` parameter and will only pass in the positional and keyword
+arguments to use in the url matching.  For example::
 
     from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse