Making a Django URL pattern with a variable which isn't a integer

Question

I was busy doing the Django tutorials and they explain how you can have url patterns which make it possible to pass information back to the functions in the view.py file. For example

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^some_view/(?P<number>\d+)', views.some_view, name = 'some_view')

and the integer in the url slot '(?Pnumber>\d+)' is passed to the some_view function in the file views.py. Apparently the d+ stands for decimal but what should it be if I want to pass a string variable back to the some_views function.

levi · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-05 18:08:47Z

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You need to use this partern: (?P<anystring>.+)

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^some_view/(?P<anystring>.+)', views.some_view, name = 'some_view')

answered Aug 5, 2014 at 18:08

levi

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user2867522 Over a year ago

Be aware that this pattern will consume any URL of type some_view/... and prevent any other URL from being parsed after that like some_view/object/id. You might want to use \w+ instead.

levi Over a year ago

Yep, but I just using it as example.

user2867522 Over a year ago

I'm not saying you're wrong. Just cautioning the OP to not use the example as is. :)

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