Why is my django url regex not working

Question

I want my url to accept 0 or more digits(positive or negative integers), I mean it should match '/','/0',...,'/9' as well as '/-9','/-88' etc.

This is the regex I am using ^([-]?[0-9]*)/$ . It works for all urls except '/', what is the problem with this regex?

EDIT:

This is my urlpatterns in urls.py in project directory:

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
    url(r'',include('basecalendar.urls'), name='date'),
]

and this is urlpattern for basecalendar

urlpatterns=[
    url(r'^([-]?[0-9]*)/$',views.get_date),
]

post the contents of urls.py file. May be you have assigned another view for / url. — Avinash Raj
– Avinash Raj, Commented Apr 18, 2017 at 10:53

Pansul Bhatt · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-18 11:13:59Z

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Since you are working with urls you might want to make sure that you are ending your url with '/'. Also, the reason why this is not working because your url is expecting a '/' at the end. So a url something/ does not match your regex, rather something// does. All these observations are being made according to your regex. Usually to handle such conditions you should add one more url above your previous regex, something like:

url(r'^something/$', view),
url(r'^something/([-]?[0-9]*)/$', view),

answered Apr 18, 2017 at 11:13

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Krash Over a year ago

Removing / from my current regex worked with my urlconf, now / points to '/0'

Vasin Yuriy Over a year ago

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