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Django routing module called URL dispatcher
Normally, When a user requests a page from your Django-powered site Django loads the URLconf module from a file called urls.py at the root of your project, Ordinarily, this is the value of the ROOT_URLCONF setting, The URL dispatcher can be overridden when the incoming HttpRequest object has an attribute called urlconf (set by middleware request processing), its value will be used in place.
First line in your urls.py should be:
1 | from django.conf.urls import patterns |
Django loads that file and looks for the variable urlpatterns. This should be a Python list, in the format returned by the function django.conf.urls.patterns().
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns urlpatterns = patterns('', # ex: / (r'^$', 'myapp.views.home', {}, 'index'), # ex: /about (r'^about', 'myapp.views.about', {}, 'about'), .... ) # To add more urlpatterns in the same urls.py you can use: urlpatterns += patterns('', .... ) |
You can use the url( convenience wrapper.
The url() function is passed five arguments, two required: regex and view, and three optional: kwargs, name, and prefix.
You can use the url() function, instead of a tuple, as an argument topatterns(). This is convenient if you want to supply a name but not extra_context you’d still have to include an empty optional extra arguments dictionary in the tuple version
Remember you need to include the url, from django.conf.urls.defaults.
1 | from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, url |
These are the same:
1 2 | (r'^$', 'views.home', {}, 'index'), url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'), |
You can use either way, as you feel convenient for you. It’s the same code above, but using Import to shorten code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns from myapp import views urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^$', 'views.home', {}, 'index'), ..... ) |
1 2 3 4 5 6 | from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns from myapp.views import home urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^$', 'home', {}, 'index'), ..... |
1 2 3 4 | urlpatterns = patterns('myapp.views', (r'^$', 'home', {}, 'index'), ..... ) |
You can include from another file, Django app or object. remember to import the include() function.
1 2 3 4 5 6 | from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, url, include urlpatterns = patterns('', # ex: /help url(r'^help/', include('help.urls')), ..... ) |
This code will search for url.py file inside help app in your django project. construct the file the same as the url.py file.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, url, include extra_patterns = patterns('', ....... ) urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^extra/', include(extra_patterns)), ..... ) |
These are the URL dispatcher basics. Maybe I’ll be post later another post on more advanced aspects of the URL dispatcher include URL grouping, passing extra parameters to view and more…
CYA,
And good luck with Django – It worth it!
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