Question: I am following the Django Tutorial to learn how to work with it, but I have encountered an error very early in it and I'm not sure how to fix it. It happened while creating the django project and doing the 'Write your first view' section: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/#write-your-first-view After following those steps carefully, while executing python3 manage.py runserver the following error appears: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'tag' This is the full error trace: Exception in thread django-main-thread: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.9/threading.py", line 973, in _bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/lib/python3.9/threading.py", line 910, in run self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs) File "/home/noctis/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 64, in wrapper fn(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/noctis/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 124, in inner_run self.check(display_num_errors=True) File "/home/noctis/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 438, in check all_issues = checks.run_checks( File "/home/noctis/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/checks/registry.py", line 77, in run_checks new_errors = check(app_configs=app_configs, databases=databases) File "/home/noctis/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/checks/urls.py", line 13, in check_url_config return check_resolver(resolver) File "/home/noctis/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/checks/urls.py", line 23, in check_resolver return check_method() File "/home/noctis/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/urls/resolvers.py", line 448, in check for pattern in self.url_patterns: File "/home/noctis/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 48, in __get__ res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance) File "/home/noctis/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/urls/resolvers.py", line 634, in url_patterns patterns = getattr(self.urlconf_module, "urlpatterns", self.urlconf_module) File "/home/noctis/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 48, in __get__ res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance) File "/home/noctis/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/urls/resolvers.py", line 627, in urlconf_module return import_module(self.urlconf_name) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1030, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 850, in exec_module File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed File "/home/noctis/code/tests/django/mysite/mysite/urls.py", line 21, in <module> path('polls/', include('polls.urls')), File "/usr/lib/python3.9/xml/etree/ElementInclude.py", line 128, in include _include(elem, loader, base_url, max_depth, set()) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/xml/etree/ElementInclude.py", line 136, in _include if e.tag == XINCLUDE_INCLUDE: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'tag'  Maybe there is some incompatibility with the python version and django version? I'm using Python 3.9.7 and Django 4.0.2 Thanks in advance

Answer: So, I've found the mistake I've made. In the tutorial there's a point where you add to mysite/urls.py this snippet: from django.contrib import admin from django.urls import include, path urlpatterns = [ path('polls/', include('polls.urls')), path('admin/', admin.site.urls), ]  The autocomplete feature for python in vscode added a different include than the one found in django.urls. Hence the error.