Adding custom views to django's admin

admin.py

from django.contrib import admin
from polls.models import Poll, Choice

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

from django.contrib.admin import AdminSite

from polls.views import index

class MyAdminSite(AdminSite):
    def get_urls(self):
        from django.conf.urls import url
        urls = super(MyAdminSite, self).get_urls()
        # Note that custom urls get pushed to the list (not appended)
        # This doesn't work with urls += ...
        urls = [
            url(r'^my_view/$', self.admin_view(index))
        ] + urls
        return urls

admin_site = MyAdminSite()


class ChoiceInline(admin.TabularInline):
    model = Choice
    extra = 1
    
class UserInline(admin.StackedInline):
    model = User
    extra = 1

class PollAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fieldsets = [
        (None,               {'fields': ['question']}),
        ('Date information', {'fields': ['pub_date'], 'classes': ['collapse']}),
    ]
    
    inlines = [ChoiceInline]
    list_display = ('question', 'pub_date', 'was_published_recently')
    list_filter = ['pub_date']
    search_fields = ['question']
    date_hierarchy = 'pub_date'
    
    
admin_site.register(Poll, PollAdmin)

urls.py

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url

# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
from django.contrib.admin import AdminSite
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()


from polls.views import index


from polls.admin import admin_site

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # Examples:
    # url(r'^$', 'mysite.views.home', name='home'),
    # url(r'^mysite/', include('mysite.foo.urls')),

    # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
    # url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),


    url(r'^admin/', include(admin_site.urls)),
)

views.py

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template import RequestContext, loader

from .models import Poll


def index(request):
    template = loader.get_template('admin/base_site.html')
    context = RequestContext(request, {})
    return HttpResponse(template.render(context))