On Monday, September 9, 2013 6:41:23 PM UTC-4, Thomas wrote:
>
> On 9/9/13 3:30 PM, Chris Kavanagh wrote:
> > I haven't used this group in a long time, so I hope I do everything
> > correctly. If I don't, I apologize in advance.
> >
> > I thought I understand the way django uses URL's in the urlconf to
> > match URL's, but I was wrong. Here's my question:
> >
> > Here's my urlconf. . .
> > url(r'^all/$', 'article.views.articles'),
> > url(r'^get/(?P<article_id>\d+)/$', 'article.views.article'),
> > url(r'^language/(?P<language>[a-z\-]+)/$',
> 'article.views.language'),
> > url(r'^create/$', 'article.views.create'),)
> >
> > and here's the other one in the site directory.
> > urlpatterns = patterns('',
> >
> > (r'^articles/', include('article.urls')),
> > url(r'^accounts/login/$', 'mysite.views.login'),
> > url(r'^accounts/auth/$', 'mysite.views.auth_view'),
> > url(r'^accounts/logout/$', 'mysite.views.logout'),
> > url(r'^accounts/loggedin/$', 'mysite.views.loggedin'),
> > url(r'^accounts/invalid/$', 'mysite.views.invalid_login'),
> > url(r'^accounts/register/$', 'mysite.views.register_user'),
> > url(r'^accounts/register_success/$',
> > 'mysite.views.register_success'),)
> >
> > Here's the question: If I have the URL
> > "http://127.0.0.1:8000/articles/create/"; it works fine and takes me to
> > the correct page. But why does it work when I have the "/article" in
> > the url. According to the urlconf last entry r'^create/$', it should
> > only match a url with "/create" NOT a url with "/article/create". The
> > caret means "starts with" and the $ means "end with", so to get to the
> > "create" page it should be a url with just "/create/" in it, right?
> I'm a bit confused by your question. All of your "urlconf" paths will
> need to have "/articles" in the path to be found. Although regex does
> use "^" and "$" to denote beginning and end, you have split your pattern
> matching into two stages so they are just matching the pattern available
> in each stage.
>
> Was your mention of "/article" above a typo and you meant "/articles"?
>
> You might want to follow up with a description of what behavior you need
> to help folks give you a solution.
>
> hth
>
> - Tom
> Tom, thanks so much for the reply. . .Yes, that was a typo, it should've
> been "/articles" not "/article".
I know this is going to be a stupid question, but why do my "urlconf"
paths need to have "/articles"
in it as you said?
Apparently I've missed something in my understanding of how all this works.
Thanks again for the help!
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