Re: Pass variable as view name to {% url %}

2009-11-17 Thread Karen Tracey
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:05 PM, ringemup wrote: > Is there any way to make the following work? Right now it's throwing > a template syntax error, apparently treating "the_pattern" as a string > literal instead of a variable name and looking for a view named > "the_pattern". > > [urls.py] > urlp

Re: Pass variable as view name to {% url %}

2009-11-17 Thread ringemup
It's really problematic to generate all the URLs (there are a lot of them) in the view and then retrieve the correct ones in the correct places in the template. It seems odd to me that {% url %} shouldn't be able to take a variable view name. On Nov 17, 7:24 pm, Karen Tracey wrote: > On Tue, N

Re: Pass variable as view name to {% url %}

2009-11-17 Thread Karen Tracey
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:33 PM, ringemup wrote: > > It's really problematic to generate all the URLs (there are a lot of > them) in the view and then retrieve the correct ones in the correct > places in the template. It seems odd to me that {% url %} shouldn't > be able to take a variable view

Re: Pass variable as view name to {% url %}

2009-11-17 Thread ringemup
Thanks for the links. On Nov 17, 7:56 pm, Karen Tracey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:33 PM, ringemup wrote: > > > It's really problematic to generate all the URLs (there are a lot of > > them) in the view and then retrieve the correct ones in the correct > > places in the template. It see