django render_to_response is not defined error
Question: Hi I am getting this error, while I tried make a simple app.

    
    
    NameError at /first/
    
    global name 'render_to_response' is not defined
    
    Request Method:     GET
    Request URL:    http://localhost:8000/first/?preview
    Django Version:     1.3
    Exception Type:     NameError
    Exception Value:    
    
    global name 'render_to_response' is not defined
    
    Exception Location:     /home/naveen/django_projects/myproject/first/views.py in index, line 5
    Python Executable:  /usr/bin/python
    Python Version:     2.6.6
    Python Path:    
    
    ['/home/naveen/django_projects/myproject',
     '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip-0.8.3-py2.6.egg',
     '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages',
     '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django_evolution-0.6.2-py2.6.egg',
     '/usr/lib/python2.6',
     '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2',
     '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk',
     '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old',
     '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload',
     '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages',
     '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages',
     '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL',
     '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10',
     '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6',
     '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0',
     '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0']
    
    Server time:    Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:50:32 -0500
    

any ideas?!


Answer: Did you try import render_to_response as `from django.shortcuts import
render_to_response`?

