django render_to_response no está definido error

Question

Hola, estoy recibiendo este error, mientras que intenté hacer una aplicación simple.

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 1

¿Ha intentado importar render_to_response como from django.shortcuts import render_to_response?

Answer 2

Si estás leyendo esto más allá - 2017, no solo render_to_responserender:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/http/shortcuts/#render-to-response

Source - Django official documentation for version - 1.11 
" render_to_response()¶ 

render_to_response(template_name, context=None, content_type=None, status=None, using=None)[source]¶ 

This function preceded the introduction of render() and works similarly except that it doesn’t make the request available in the response. 
It’s not recommended and is likely to be deprecated in the future."