Fixed #23276 -- Deprecated passing views as strings to url().

docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt

@@ -2571,10 +2571,12 @@ your URLconf. Specifically, add these four patterns:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-    url(r'^admin/password_reset/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset', name='admin_password_reset'),
-    url(r'^admin/password_reset/done/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_done', name='password_reset_done'),
-    url(r'^reset/(?P<uidb64>[0-9A-Za-z_\-]+)/(?P<token>.+)/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm', name='password_reset_confirm'),
-    url(r'^reset/done/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_complete', name='password_reset_complete'),
+    from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
+
+    url(r'^admin/password_reset/$', auth_views.password_reset, name='admin_password_reset'),
+    url(r'^admin/password_reset/done/$', auth_views.password_reset_done, name='password_reset_done'),
+    url(r'^reset/(?P<uidb64>[0-9A-Za-z_\-]+)/(?P<token>.+)/$', auth_views.password_reset_confirm, name='password_reset_confirm'),
+    url(r'^reset/done/$', auth_views.password_reset_complete, name='password_reset_complete'),
 
 (This assumes you've added the admin at ``admin/`` and requires that you put
 the URLs starting with ``^admin/`` before the line that includes the admin app

docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt

@@ -54,8 +54,10 @@ Initialization
 To activate sitemap generation on your Django site, add this line to your
 :doc:`URLconf </topics/http/urls>`::
 
-   url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap',
-       {'sitemaps': sitemaps}, name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap')
+    from django.contrib.sitemaps.views import sitemap
+
+    url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', sitemap, {'sitemaps': sitemaps},
+        name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap')
 
 This tells Django to build a sitemap when a client accesses :file:`/sitemap.xml`.
 
@@ -277,6 +279,7 @@ Here's an example of a :doc:`URLconf </topics/http/urls>` using both::
 
     from django.conf.urls import url
     from django.contrib.sitemaps import FlatPageSitemap, GenericSitemap
+    from django.contrib.sitemaps.views import sitemap
     from blog.models import Entry
 
     info_dict = {
@@ -294,8 +297,8 @@ Here's an example of a :doc:`URLconf </topics/http/urls>` using both::
         # ...
 
         # the sitemap
-        url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap',
-            {'sitemaps': sitemaps}, name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap'),
+        url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', sitemap, {'sitemaps': sitemaps},
+            name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap'),
     ]
 
 .. _URLconf: ../url_dispatch/
@@ -311,8 +314,11 @@ the sitemap. For example::
 
     # sitemaps.py
     from django.contrib import sitemaps
+    from django.contrib.sitemaps.views import sitemap
     from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
 
+    from . import views
+
     class StaticViewSitemap(sitemaps.Sitemap):
         priority = 0.5
         changefreq = 'daily'
@@ -332,12 +338,12 @@ the sitemap. For example::
     }
 
     urlpatterns = [
-        url(r'^$', 'views.main', name='main'),
-        url(r'^about/$', 'views.about', name='about'),
-        url(r'^license/$', 'views.license', name='license'),
+        url(r'^$', views.main, name='main'),
+        url(r'^about/$', views.about, name='about'),
+        url(r'^license/$', views.license, name='license'),
         # ...
-        url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap',
-            {'sitemaps': sitemaps}, name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap')
+        url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', sitemap, {'sitemaps': sitemaps},
+            name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap')
     ]
 
 

docs/ref/urls.txt

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ The ``optional_dictionary`` and ``optional_name`` parameters are described in
 static()
 --------
 
-.. function:: static.static(prefix, view='django.views.static.serve', **kwargs)
+.. function:: static.static(prefix, view=django.views.static.serve, **kwargs)
 
 Helper function to return a URL pattern for serving files in debug mode::
 
@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ Helper function to return a URL pattern for serving files in debug mode::
         # ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
     ] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
 
+.. versionchanged:: 1.8
+
+    The ``view`` argument changed from a string
+    (``'django.views.static.serve'``) to the function.
+
 url()
 -----
 
@@ -111,9 +116,14 @@ function or method. See :ref:`views-extra-options` for an example.
 See :ref:`Naming URL patterns <naming-url-patterns>` for why the ``name``
 parameter is useful.
 
-The ``prefix`` parameter has the same meaning as the first argument to
-``patterns()`` and is only relevant when you're passing a string as the
-``view`` parameter.
+.. deprecated:: 1.8
+
+    Support for string ``view`` arguments is deprecated and will be removed in
+    Django 2.0. Pass the callable  instead.
+
+    The ``prefix`` parameter has the same meaning as the first argument to
+    ``patterns()`` and is only relevant when you're passing a string as the
+    ``view`` parameter.
 
 include()
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