Sorry, forgot to say that I have imported the view into urls.py
from rdk.pages.views import return_template
On Apr 18, 2:39 pm, Brandon Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I understand the concept of that, but I'm having an issue with
> importing the view function into my urls.py. Here's what I have so
> far:
>
> #in views.py
> from django.views.generic.simple import direct_to_template
>
> def return_template(template):
> return direct_to_template(template % '.html')
>
> #in urls.py
> urlpatterns += patterns('compliance-bsa/',
> (r'(?P<template>[-\w]+)/$',
> return_template((template))),
> )
>
> This gives me an error: Error while importing URLconf
> 'rdk.pages.urls': name 'template' is not defined. I thought (?
> P<template>) gave me (template) that I can use later in views, no?
>
> Thank you,
> Brandon
>
> On Apr 18, 2:12 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Yes, instead of having it use a generic directly in the urlconf, you
> > would have it go to the view, the view would do what you
> > need(specifically doing that simple substitution), and then have it
> > return django.views.generic.simple.direct_to_template, remember views
> > are just functions, if you need an example let me know and I will
> > write one up.
>
> > On Apr 18, 3:10 pm, Brandon Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi Alex,
>
> > > Thanks for the advice. Still being new to Django, where would such a
> > > wrapper function need to exist? In the views.py? models.py?
>
> > > I'm guessing it would need to be something along the lines of:
>
> > > def replace_template_var(template):
> > > return template % '.html'
>
> > > ? Please advise,
> > > Brandon
>
> > > On Apr 18, 1:34 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > Direct_to_template does not substitute the template var in to the
> > > > template param, you will need to write a simple wrapper to do
> > > > something like this.
>
> > > > On Apr 18, 12:35 pm, Brandon Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Ah. I see now. It's matching the first part of the URL, but it doesn't
> > > > > seem to want to substitute the named parameter <template> as
> > > > > (template) as such:
>
> > > > > (r'(?P<template>[-\w]+)/$', 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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