Error in the Django tutorial: urls.py - django

Question

I just upgraded my Django to version 1.9.6. I was doing the basic tutorial but I have a Syntax Error in the urls.py.
Note: I changed the name "mysite" to "polls", and "polls" to "poll".
This is my code in polls/poll/urls.py:
from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^, views.index, name='index'),
]
And this is the error message:
Unhandled exception in thread started by <function check_errors.<locals>.wrapper at 0x03AE16F0>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py", line 226, in wrapper
fn(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\runserver.py", line 116, in inner_run
self.check(display_num_errors=True)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 426, in check
include_deployment_checks=include_deployment_checks,
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\checks\registry.py", line 75, in run_checks
new_errors = check(app_configs=app_configs)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\checks\urls.py", line 13, in check_url_config
return check_resolver(resolver)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\checks\urls.py", line 23, in check_resolver
for pattern in resolver.url_patterns:
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\utils\functional.py", line 33, in __get__
res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\urlresolvers.py", line 417, in url_patterns
patterns = getattr(self.urlconf_module, "urlpatterns", self.urlconf_module)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\utils\functional.py", line 33, in __get__
res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\urlresolvers.py", line 410, in urlconf_module
return import_module(self.urlconf_name)
File "C:\Python34\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 109, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2254, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2237, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2226, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1200, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1129, in _exec
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1471, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 321, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "C:\Users\David\Dropbox\Emprendimiento\Gamification\polls\polls\urls.py", line 20, in <module>
url(r'^poll/', include('poll.urls')),
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\conf\urls\__init__.py", line 52, in include
urlconf_module = import_module(urlconf_module)
File "C:\Python34\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 109, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2254, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2237, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2226, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1200, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1129, in _exec
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1467, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1572, in get_code
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1532, in source_to_code
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 321, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "C:\Users\David\Dropbox\Emprendimiento\Gamification\polls\poll\urls.py", line 6
url(r'^, views.index, name='index'),
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Thanks for the help

Answer 1

You have missed out the ' to end the string (before the comma in r'^,. Ideally, you should add a $ as well:
url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
Note that your text editor or IDE may do syntax highlighting to help you spot this question - note that in your question, Stack Overflow has all of ^, views.index, name= in the same colour, to show that it's a single string.