django url how to specify 2 or more strings

Question

I want to match the following url

 url(r'^home/Physician|Vendor/$, 'ViewerLog', name="monitor_viewerLog"),

How do I match Physician or Vendor? Is this the right way?

Alasdair · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-31 12:05:14Z

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To match Physician or Vendor, use parentheses.

url(r'^home/(Physician|Vendor)/$, 'ViewerLog', name="monitor_viewerLog"),

This will call your view with the matched value as an argument. If you don't want to capture the matched value, use (?:...).

url(r'^home/(?:Physician|Vendor)/$, 'ViewerLog', name="monitor_viewerLog"),

answered Oct 31, 2012 at 12:05

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WillyKaze · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-01 10:49:46Z

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If you want to capture the matched value, you can name your returned argument:

url(r'^home/(?P<guy>Physician|Vendor)/$', 'ViewerLog', name="monitor_viewerLog"),

answered Nov 1, 2012 at 10:49

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