Django url pattern

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This should be an easy question. I have two url patterns in Django:

url(r'^wiki/page/(?P<page_title>.*)', views.wiki_view, name = 'wiki_view'),
url(r'^wiki/page/$', views.wiki_page_index, name = 'wiki_page_index'),

When I visit /wiki/page/test, it takes me to views.wiki_view. This is correct. I need the first pattern to capture all characters after the "page/", which is why I used .*

When I visit /wiki/page/, it also takes me to views.wiki_view. This is incorrect.

I could alter the second url pattern to read:

url(r'^wiki/page/$', views.wiki_page_index, name = 'wiki_page_index'),

Thus, when I visit /wiki/page, it will take me to views.wiki_page_index. But I'd rather fix the problem instead of avoiding it.

How do I format the first url pattern so that it won't pick up the instance of /wiki/page/?

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-30 14:58:31Z

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Change the first one to:

url(r'^wiki/page/(?P<page_title>.+)', views.wiki_view, name = 'wiki_view'),

answered Nov 30, 2010 at 14:58

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initall · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-30 15:08:38Z

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Place the second one before the current first one.

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/urls/ ("Django runs through each URL pattern, in order, and stops at the first one that matches the requested URL.")

edited Nov 30, 2010 at 15:08

answered Nov 30, 2010 at 14:57

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