Yes, instead of having it use a generic directly in the urlconf, you
would have it go to the view, the view would do what you
need(specifically doing that simple substitution), and then have it
return django.views.generic.simple.direct_to_template, remember views
are just functions, if you need an example let me know and I will
write one up.

On Apr 18, 3:10 pm, Brandon Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Thanks for the advice. Still being new to Django, where would such a
> wrapper function need to exist? In the views.py? models.py?
>
> I'm guessing it would need to be something along the lines of:
>
> def replace_template_var(template):
>     return template % '.html'
>
> ? Please advise,
> Brandon
>
> On Apr 18, 1:34 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Direct_to_template does not substitute the template var in to the
> > template param, you will need to write a simple wrapper to do
> > something like this.
>
> > On Apr 18, 12:35 pm, Brandon Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Ah. I see now. It's matching the first part of the URL, but it doesn't
> > > seem to want to substitute the named parameter <template> as
> > > (template) as such:
>
> > > (r'(?P<template>[-\w]+)/$', direct_to_template, {'template' : '%
> > > (template)s.html'}),
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Brandon
>
> > > On Apr 18, 11:25 am, "Marty Alchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Brandon Taylor
>
> > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > >  (r'?P<template>[-\w]+/$', direct_to_template, {'template' : '%
> > > > >  (template)s.html'}),
>
> > > > >  ...and received an error saying:
> > > > >  Error while importing URLconf 'rdk.pages.urls': nothing to repeat
>
> > > > You're missing parentheses around the group you're trying to capture.
> > > > Without them, Python thinks the first question mark is a "zero or one
> > > > instances" instruction, but there's nothing befor it to match against.
> > > > Try this:
>
> > > > r'(?P<template>[-\w]+)/$'
>
> > > > -Gul
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