[Answered ]-No module named simple error in Django

It seems function based views have been deprecated in Django 1.3 (and may have been removed in the latest dev)
You should then replace them with the class-based views provided in Django 1.4

Deprecated function-based generic views
Class based views

You might be interested in the TemplateView.

django.views.generic.simple was deprecated and doesn’t exist beyond django 1.4. Is there a specific reason you are using a development branch of django and not the latest stable version (1.4.2)?

I would recommend either using django 1.4.2 (which has django.views.generic.simple or use render (from django.shortcuts import render) instead of direct_to_template.