Thanks a lot for your reply. I just found an regex from some blog which is as follows
(r'^user/([\w\'\.\-]+\s?[\w\'\.\-]+)/$','accounts.views.userProfile'), and this seems to be working fine. Have not tested all the use cases for this regex, but anyway username with . (dot) is working fine now. Swaroop Shankar V On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 2:02 PM, yati sagade <yati.sag...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure, but I think this should work - try it out and let us know. > > r'^user/([\w\-+.@]+)/$' > > I'm not too good with regexes, either. No one is. Also, characters like > "+" are encoded in URLs - so you might want to think of that. > > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Swaroop Shankar V <swaroo...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hello All, >> I need some urgent help with this one. Am trying to show a user profile >> when the user navigates to a url of this format >> >> http://example.com/user/<username> >> >> I have provided the following expression in my urls.py file >> >> (r'^user/(\w+)/$','accounts.views.userProfile'), >> >> this working fine for normal usernames, but if the user add a . (dot) in >> between his username the url do not match with the regex and throws Page >> not found error. >> >> Since the django username supports Letters, digits and @/./+/-/_ i >> want all these to be supported in my url. Could someone please help me to >> construct the url. Am pretty weak in regex and it will take me sometime to >> build a proper regex for the above url. Thanks >> >> Regards, >> >> Swaroop Shankar V >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Yati Sagade <http://twitter.com/yati_itay> > > Twitter: @yati_itay <http://twitter.com/yati_itay> > > Organizing member of TEDx EasternMetropolitanBypass > http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/4933 > > https://www.facebook.com/pages/TEDx-EasternMetropolitanBypass/337763226244869 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
