diff --git a/django/conf/project_template/project_name/urls.py b/django/conf/project_template/project_name/urls.py
index d85c6f8e28..308d0b4d33 100644
--- a/django/conf/project_template/project_name/urls.py
+++ b/django/conf/project_template/project_name/urls.py
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
 from django.contrib import admin
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     # Examples:
     # url(r'^$', '{{ project_name }}.views.home', name='home'),
     # url(r'^blog/', include('blog.urls')),
 
     url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-)
+]
diff --git a/django/conf/urls/__init__.py b/django/conf/urls/__init__.py
index 2fe0cf5946..60c767fc9b 100644
--- a/django/conf/urls/__init__.py
+++ b/django/conf/urls/__init__.py
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 from importlib import import_module
+import warnings
 
 from django.core.urlresolvers import (RegexURLPattern,
     RegexURLResolver, LocaleRegexURLResolver)
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.utils import six
+from django.utils.deprecation import RemovedInDjango20Warning
 
 
 __all__ = ['handler400', 'handler403', 'handler404', 'handler500', 'include', 'patterns', 'url']
@@ -42,6 +44,12 @@ def include(arg, namespace=None, app_name=None):
 
 
 def patterns(prefix, *args):
+    warnings.warn(
+        'django.conf.urls.patterns() is deprecated and will be removed in '
+        'Django 2.0. Update your urlpatterns to be a list of '
+        'django.conf.urls.url() instances instead.',
+        RemovedInDjango20Warning, stacklevel=2
+    )
     pattern_list = []
     for t in args:
         if isinstance(t, (list, tuple)):
diff --git a/django/conf/urls/i18n.py b/django/conf/urls/i18n.py
index 1b0a1da438..dbddcc0554 100644
--- a/django/conf/urls/i18n.py
+++ b/django/conf/urls/i18n.py
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
+import warnings
+
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
 from django.core.urlresolvers import LocaleRegexURLResolver
+from django.utils import six
+from django.utils.deprecation import RemovedInDjango20Warning
 
 
 def i18n_patterns(prefix, *args):
@@ -8,14 +12,23 @@ def i18n_patterns(prefix, *args):
     Adds the language code prefix to every URL pattern within this
     function. This may only be used in the root URLconf, not in an included
     URLconf.
-
     """
-    pattern_list = patterns(prefix, *args)
+    if isinstance(prefix, (six.text_type, str)):
+        warnings.warn(
+            "Calling i18n_patterns() with the `prefix` argument and with tuples "
+            "instead of django.conf.urls.url() instances is deprecated and "
+            "will no longer work in Django 2.0. Use a list of "
+            "django.conf.urls.url() instances instead.",
+            RemovedInDjango20Warning, stacklevel=2
+        )
+        pattern_list = patterns(prefix, *args)
+    else:
+        pattern_list = [prefix] + list(args)
     if not settings.USE_I18N:
         return pattern_list
     return [LocaleRegexURLResolver(pattern_list)]
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^setlang/$', 'django.views.i18n.set_language', name='set_language'),
-)
+]
diff --git a/django/conf/urls/static.py b/django/conf/urls/static.py
index a596bbbb4b..f3470af025 100644
--- a/django/conf/urls/static.py
+++ b/django/conf/urls/static.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import re
 
 from django.conf import settings
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 
 
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ def static(prefix, view='django.views.static.serve', **kwargs):
     from django.conf import settings
     from django.conf.urls.static import static
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         # ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
-    ) + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
+    ] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
 
     """
     # No-op if not in debug mode or an non-local prefix
@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@ def static(prefix, view='django.views.static.serve', **kwargs):
         return []
     elif not prefix:
         raise ImproperlyConfigured("Empty static prefix not permitted")
-    return patterns('',
+    return [
         url(r'^%s(?P<path>.*)$' % re.escape(prefix.lstrip('/')), view, kwargs=kwargs),
-    )
+    ]
diff --git a/django/contrib/admin/options.py b/django/contrib/admin/options.py
index 99eb79512c..1dfc84df2f 100644
--- a/django/contrib/admin/options.py
+++ b/django/contrib/admin/options.py
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ class ModelAdmin(BaseModelAdmin):
         return inline_instances
 
     def get_urls(self):
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+        from django.conf.urls import url
 
         def wrap(view):
             def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
@@ -552,13 +552,13 @@ class ModelAdmin(BaseModelAdmin):
 
         info = self.model._meta.app_label, self.model._meta.model_name
 
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        urlpatterns = [
             url(r'^$', wrap(self.changelist_view), name='%s_%s_changelist' % info),
             url(r'^add/$', wrap(self.add_view), name='%s_%s_add' % info),
             url(r'^(.+)/history/$', wrap(self.history_view), name='%s_%s_history' % info),
             url(r'^(.+)/delete/$', wrap(self.delete_view), name='%s_%s_delete' % info),
             url(r'^(.+)/$', wrap(self.change_view), name='%s_%s_change' % info),
-        )
+        ]
         return urlpatterns
 
     def urls(self):
diff --git a/django/contrib/admin/sites.py b/django/contrib/admin/sites.py
index 2e1468b87a..8480c08891 100644
--- a/django/contrib/admin/sites.py
+++ b/django/contrib/admin/sites.py
@@ -177,12 +177,12 @@ class AdminSite(object):
             class MyAdminSite(AdminSite):
 
                 def get_urls(self):
-                    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+                    from django.conf.urls import url
 
                     urls = super(MyAdminSite, self).get_urls()
-                    urls += patterns('',
+                    urls += [
                         url(r'^my_view/$', self.admin_view(some_view))
-                    )
+                    ]
                     return urls
 
         By default, admin_views are marked non-cacheable using the
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ class AdminSite(object):
         return update_wrapper(inner, view)
 
     def get_urls(self):
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
+        from django.conf.urls import url, include
         # Since this module gets imported in the application's root package,
         # it cannot import models from other applications at the module level,
         # and django.contrib.contenttypes.views imports ContentType.
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ class AdminSite(object):
             return update_wrapper(wrapper, view)
 
         # Admin-site-wide views.
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        urlpatterns = [
             url(r'^$', wrap(self.index), name='index'),
             url(r'^login/$', self.login, name='login'),
             url(r'^logout/$', wrap(self.logout), name='logout'),
@@ -234,15 +234,15 @@ class AdminSite(object):
             url(r'^password_change/done/$', wrap(self.password_change_done, cacheable=True), name='password_change_done'),
             url(r'^jsi18n/$', wrap(self.i18n_javascript, cacheable=True), name='jsi18n'),
             url(r'^r/(?P<content_type_id>\d+)/(?P<object_id>.+)/$', wrap(contenttype_views.shortcut), name='view_on_site'),
-        )
+        ]
 
         # Add in each model's views, and create a list of valid URLS for the
         # app_index
         valid_app_labels = []
         for model, model_admin in six.iteritems(self._registry):
-            urlpatterns += patterns('',
-                url(r'^%s/%s/' % (model._meta.app_label, model._meta.model_name), include(model_admin.urls))
-            )
+            urlpatterns += [
+                url(r'^%s/%s/' % (model._meta.app_label, model._meta.model_name), include(model_admin.urls)),
+            ]
             if model._meta.app_label not in valid_app_labels:
                 valid_app_labels.append(model._meta.app_label)
 
@@ -250,9 +250,9 @@ class AdminSite(object):
         # labels for which we need to allow access to the app_index view,
         if valid_app_labels:
             regex = r'^(?P<app_label>' + '|'.join(valid_app_labels) + ')/$'
-            urlpatterns += patterns('',
+            urlpatterns += [
                 url(regex, wrap(self.app_index), name='app_list'),
-            )
+            ]
         return urlpatterns
 
     @property
diff --git a/django/contrib/admindocs/urls.py b/django/contrib/admindocs/urls.py
index 3dc55657df..e0b2259ef9 100644
--- a/django/contrib/admindocs/urls.py
+++ b/django/contrib/admindocs/urls.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.contrib.admindocs import views
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url('^$',
         views.BaseAdminDocsView.as_view(template_name='admin_doc/index.html'),
         name='django-admindocs-docroot'),
@@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ urlpatterns = patterns('',
     url('^templates/(?P<template>.*)/$',
         views.TemplateDetailView.as_view(),
         name='django-admindocs-templates'),
-)
+]
diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/admin.py b/django/contrib/auth/admin.py
index 37d0ee487b..d8fff7ce0f 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/admin.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/admin.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from django.db import transaction
 from django.conf import settings
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.contrib import admin
 from django.contrib.admin.options import IS_POPUP_VAR
 from django.contrib.auth.forms import (UserCreationForm, UserChangeForm,
@@ -76,11 +77,9 @@ class UserAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
         return super(UserAdmin, self).get_form(request, obj, **defaults)
 
     def get_urls(self):
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns
-        return patterns('',
-            (r'^(\d+)/password/$',
-             self.admin_site.admin_view(self.user_change_password))
-        ) + super(UserAdmin, self).get_urls()
+        return [
+            url(r'^(\d+)/password/$', self.admin_site.admin_view(self.user_change_password)),
+        ] + super(UserAdmin, self).get_urls()
 
     def lookup_allowed(self, lookup, value):
         # See #20078: we don't want to allow any lookups involving passwords.
diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/tests/urls.py b/django/contrib/auth/tests/urls.py
index 5a8e7846c8..9997b29bbe 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/tests/urls.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/tests/urls.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
+from django.conf.urls import url, include
 from django.contrib import admin
 from django.contrib.auth import context_processors
 from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm
@@ -70,36 +70,36 @@ def custom_request_auth_login(request):
     return login(request, authentication_form=CustomRequestAuthenticationForm)
 
 # special urls for auth test cases
-urlpatterns = urlpatterns + patterns('',
-    (r'^logout/custom_query/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout', dict(redirect_field_name='follow')),
-    (r'^logout/next_page/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout', dict(next_page='/somewhere/')),
-    (r'^logout/next_page/named/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout', dict(next_page='password_reset')),
-    (r'^remote_user/$', remote_user_auth_view),
-    (r'^password_reset_from_email/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset', dict(from_email='staffmember@example.com')),
-    (r'^password_reset/custom_redirect/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset', dict(post_reset_redirect='/custom/')),
-    (r'^password_reset/custom_redirect/named/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset', dict(post_reset_redirect='password_reset')),
-    (r'^password_reset/html_email_template/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset', dict(html_email_template_name='registration/html_password_reset_email.html')),
-    (r'^reset/custom/(?P<uidb64>[0-9A-Za-z_\-]+)/(?P<token>[0-9A-Za-z]{1,13}-[0-9A-Za-z]{1,20})/$',
+urlpatterns += [
+    url(r'^logout/custom_query/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout', dict(redirect_field_name='follow')),
+    url(r'^logout/next_page/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout', dict(next_page='/somewhere/')),
+    url(r'^logout/next_page/named/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout', dict(next_page='password_reset')),
+    url(r'^remote_user/$', remote_user_auth_view),
+    url(r'^password_reset_from_email/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset', dict(from_email='staffmember@example.com')),
+    url(r'^password_reset/custom_redirect/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset', dict(post_reset_redirect='/custom/')),
+    url(r'^password_reset/custom_redirect/named/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset', dict(post_reset_redirect='password_reset')),
+    url(r'^password_reset/html_email_template/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset', dict(html_email_template_name='registration/html_password_reset_email.html')),
+    url(r'^reset/custom/(?P<uidb64>[0-9A-Za-z_\-]+)/(?P<token>[0-9A-Za-z]{1,13}-[0-9A-Za-z]{1,20})/$',
         'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm',
         dict(post_reset_redirect='/custom/')),
-    (r'^reset/custom/named/(?P<uidb64>[0-9A-Za-z_\-]+)/(?P<token>[0-9A-Za-z]{1,13}-[0-9A-Za-z]{1,20})/$',
+    url(r'^reset/custom/named/(?P<uidb64>[0-9A-Za-z_\-]+)/(?P<token>[0-9A-Za-z]{1,13}-[0-9A-Za-z]{1,20})/$',
         'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm',
         dict(post_reset_redirect='password_reset')),
-    (r'^password_change/custom/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_change', dict(post_change_redirect='/custom/')),
-    (r'^password_change/custom/named/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_change', dict(post_change_redirect='password_reset')),
-    (r'^admin_password_reset/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset', dict(is_admin_site=True)),
-    (r'^login_required/$', login_required(password_reset)),
-    (r'^login_required_login_url/$', login_required(password_reset, login_url='/somewhere/')),
+    url(r'^password_change/custom/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_change', dict(post_change_redirect='/custom/')),
+    url(r'^password_change/custom/named/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_change', dict(post_change_redirect='password_reset')),
+    url(r'^admin_password_reset/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset', dict(is_admin_site=True)),
+    url(r'^login_required/$', login_required(password_reset)),
+    url(r'^login_required_login_url/$', login_required(password_reset, login_url='/somewhere/')),
 
-    (r'^auth_processor_no_attr_access/$', auth_processor_no_attr_access),
-    (r'^auth_processor_attr_access/$', auth_processor_attr_access),
-    (r'^auth_processor_user/$', auth_processor_user),
-    (r'^auth_processor_perms/$', auth_processor_perms),
-    (r'^auth_processor_perm_in_perms/$', auth_processor_perm_in_perms),
-    (r'^auth_processor_messages/$', auth_processor_messages),
-    (r'^custom_request_auth_login/$', custom_request_auth_login),
+    url(r'^auth_processor_no_attr_access/$', auth_processor_no_attr_access),
+    url(r'^auth_processor_attr_access/$', auth_processor_attr_access),
+    url(r'^auth_processor_user/$', auth_processor_user),
+    url(r'^auth_processor_perms/$', auth_processor_perms),
+    url(r'^auth_processor_perm_in_perms/$', auth_processor_perm_in_perms),
+    url(r'^auth_processor_messages/$', auth_processor_messages),
+    url(r'^custom_request_auth_login/$', custom_request_auth_login),
     url(r'^userpage/(.+)/$', userpage, name="userpage"),
 
     # This line is only required to render the password reset with is_admin=True
-    (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-)
+    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
+]
diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/tests/urls_admin.py b/django/contrib/auth/tests/urls_admin.py
index 14a38e40d3..49d6f38447 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/tests/urls_admin.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/tests/urls_admin.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Test URLs for auth admins.
 """
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
 from django.contrib import admin
 from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin, GroupAdmin
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Group
@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@ site = admin.AdminSite(name='auth_test_admin')
 site.register(User, UserAdmin)
 site.register(Group, GroupAdmin)
 
-urlpatterns = urlpatterns + patterns('',
-    (r'^admin/', include(site.urls)),
-)
+urlpatterns += [
+    url(r'^admin/', include(site.urls)),
+]
diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/urls.py b/django/contrib/auth/urls.py
index 85b8b2869d..ab2ba9e9e0 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/urls.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/urls.py
@@ -3,17 +3,17 @@
 # It is also provided as a convenience to those who want to deploy these URLs
 # elsewhere.
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
+from django.contrib.auth import views
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    url(r'^login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login', name='login'),
-    url(r'^logout/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout', name='logout'),
-    url(r'^password_change/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_change', name='password_change'),
-    url(r'^password_change/done/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_change_done', name='password_change_done'),
-    url(r'^password_reset/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset', name='password_reset'),
-    url(r'^password_reset/done/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_done', name='password_reset_done'),
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^login/$', views.login, name='login'),
+    url(r'^logout/$', views.logout, name='logout'),
+    url(r'^password_change/$', views.password_change, name='password_change'),
+    url(r'^password_change/done/$', views.password_change_done, name='password_change_done'),
+    url(r'^password_reset/$', views.password_reset, name='password_reset'),
+    url(r'^password_reset/done/$', views.password_reset_done, name='password_reset_done'),
     url(r'^reset/(?P<uidb64>[0-9A-Za-z_\-]+)/(?P<token>[0-9A-Za-z]{1,13}-[0-9A-Za-z]{1,20})/$',
-        'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm',
-        name='password_reset_confirm'),
-    url(r'^reset/done/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_complete', name='password_reset_complete'),
-)
+        views.password_reset_confirm, name='password_reset_confirm'),
+    url(r'^reset/done/$', views.password_reset_complete, name='password_reset_complete'),
+]
diff --git a/django/contrib/flatpages/tests/urls.py b/django/contrib/flatpages/tests/urls.py
index 77a70939f1..44975c1685 100644
--- a/django/contrib/flatpages/tests/urls.py
+++ b/django/contrib/flatpages/tests/urls.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
 
 # special urls for flatpage test cases
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^flatpage_root', include('django.contrib.flatpages.urls')),
-    (r'^accounts/', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^flatpage_root', include('django.contrib.flatpages.urls')),
+    url(r'^accounts/', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),
+]
diff --git a/django/contrib/flatpages/urls.py b/django/contrib/flatpages/urls.py
index 5abb8e1986..4b5b9aed34 100644
--- a/django/contrib/flatpages/urls.py
+++ b/django/contrib/flatpages/urls.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
+from django.contrib.flatpages import views
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('django.contrib.flatpages.views',
-    (r'^(?P<url>.*)$', 'flatpage'),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^(?P<url>.*)$', views.flatpage),
+]
diff --git a/django/contrib/formtools/tests/urls.py b/django/contrib/formtools/tests/urls.py
index c86a7408e0..2811ce4003 100644
--- a/django/contrib/formtools/tests/urls.py
+++ b/django/contrib/formtools/tests/urls.py
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 This is a URLconf to be loaded by tests.py. Add any URLs needed for tests only.
 """
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.contrib.formtools.tests.tests import TestFormPreview
 
 from django.contrib.formtools.tests.forms import TestForm
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^preview/', TestFormPreview(TestForm)),
-)
+]
diff --git a/django/contrib/formtools/tests/wizard/namedwizardtests/urls.py b/django/contrib/formtools/tests/wizard/namedwizardtests/urls.py
index a88e711720..0cf92248be 100644
--- a/django/contrib/formtools/tests/wizard/namedwizardtests/urls.py
+++ b/django/contrib/formtools/tests/wizard/namedwizardtests/urls.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.contrib.formtools.tests.wizard.namedwizardtests.forms import (
     SessionContactWizard, CookieContactWizard, Page1, Page2, Page3, Page4)
 
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ def get_named_cookie_wizard():
         done_step_name='nwiz_cookie_done'
     )
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^nwiz_session/(?P<step>.+)/$', get_named_session_wizard(), name='nwiz_session'),
     url(r'^nwiz_session/$', get_named_session_wizard(), name='nwiz_session_start'),
     url(r'^nwiz_cookie/(?P<step>.+)/$', get_named_cookie_wizard(), name='nwiz_cookie'),
     url(r'^nwiz_cookie/$', get_named_cookie_wizard(), name='nwiz_cookie_start'),
-)
+]
diff --git a/django/contrib/formtools/tests/wizard/wizardtests/urls.py b/django/contrib/formtools/tests/wizard/wizardtests/urls.py
index d2e7c575cc..300ac136aa 100644
--- a/django/contrib/formtools/tests/wizard/wizardtests/urls.py
+++ b/django/contrib/formtools/tests/wizard/wizardtests/urls.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.contrib.formtools.tests.wizard.wizardtests.forms import (
     SessionContactWizard, CookieContactWizard, Page1, Page2, Page3, Page4)
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^wiz_session/$', SessionContactWizard.as_view(
         [('form1', Page1),
          ('form2', Page2),
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ urlpatterns = patterns('',
          ('form3', Page3),
          ('form4', Page4)],
         template_name='other_wizard_form.html')),
-)
+]
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/tests/geoadmin/urls.py b/django/contrib/gis/tests/geoadmin/urls.py
index f41587280d..eb91d283d4 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/tests/geoadmin/urls.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/tests/geoadmin/urls.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
 from django.contrib import admin
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
+]
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/tests/geoapp/urls.py b/django/contrib/gis/tests/geoapp/urls.py
index a81ab0a85b..e6b895f7ff 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/tests/geoapp/urls.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/tests/geoapp/urls.py
@@ -1,20 +1,23 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
+from django.contrib.gis import views as gis_views
+from django.contrib.sitemaps import views as sitemap_views
+from django.contrib.gis.sitemaps import views as gis_sitemap_views
 
 from .feeds import feed_dict
 from .sitemaps import sitemaps
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^feeds/(?P<url>.*)/$', 'django.contrib.gis.views.feed', {'feed_dict': feed_dict}),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^feeds/(?P<url>.*)/$', gis_views.feed, {'feed_dict': feed_dict}),
+]
 
-urlpatterns += patterns('django.contrib.sitemaps.views',
-    (r'^sitemaps/(?P<section>\w+)\.xml$', 'sitemap', {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),
-)
+urlpatterns += [
+    url(r'^sitemaps/(?P<section>\w+)\.xml$', sitemap_views.sitemap, {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),
+]
 
-urlpatterns += patterns('django.contrib.gis.sitemaps.views',
-    (r'^sitemaps/kml/(?P<label>\w+)/(?P<model>\w+)/(?P<field_name>\w+)\.kml$', 'kml'),
-    (r'^sitemaps/kml/(?P<label>\w+)/(?P<model>\w+)/(?P<field_name>\w+)\.kmz$', 'kmz'),
-)
+urlpatterns += [
+    url(r'^sitemaps/kml/(?P<label>\w+)/(?P<model>\w+)/(?P<field_name>\w+)\.kml$', gis_sitemap_views.kml),
+    url(r'^sitemaps/kml/(?P<label>\w+)/(?P<model>\w+)/(?P<field_name>\w+)\.kmz$', gis_sitemap_views.kmz),
+]
diff --git a/django/contrib/messages/tests/urls.py b/django/contrib/messages/tests/urls.py
index 7f77636742..f0ee16b1fb 100644
--- a/django/contrib/messages/tests/urls.py
+++ b/django/contrib/messages/tests/urls.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.contrib import messages
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
 from django import forms
@@ -68,10 +68,10 @@ class ContactFormViewWithMsg(SuccessMessageMixin, FormView):
     success_message = "%(name)s was created successfully"
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    ('^add/(debug|info|success|warning|error)/$', add),
+urlpatterns = [
+    url('^add/(debug|info|success|warning|error)/$', add),
     url('^add/msg/$', ContactFormViewWithMsg.as_view(), name='add_success_msg'),
-    ('^show/$', show),
-    ('^template_response/add/(debug|info|success|warning|error)/$', add_template_response),
-    ('^template_response/show/$', show_template_response),
-)
+    url('^show/$', show),
+    url('^template_response/add/(debug|info|success|warning|error)/$', add_template_response),
+    url('^template_response/show/$', show_template_response),
+]
diff --git a/django/contrib/sitemaps/tests/urls/http.py b/django/contrib/sitemaps/tests/urls/http.py
index 2cadb23deb..1ec292ce9e 100644
--- a/django/contrib/sitemaps/tests/urls/http.py
+++ b/django/contrib/sitemaps/tests/urls/http.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from datetime import datetime
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.contrib.sitemaps import Sitemap, GenericSitemap, FlatPageSitemap, views
 from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page
 
@@ -66,22 +66,23 @@ flatpage_sitemaps = {
     'flatpages': FlatPageSitemap,
 }
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('django.contrib.sitemaps.views',
-    (r'^simple/index\.xml$', 'index', {'sitemaps': simple_sitemaps}),
-    (r'^simple/custom-index\.xml$', 'index',
+
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^simple/index\.xml$', views.index, {'sitemaps': simple_sitemaps}),
+    url(r'^simple/custom-index\.xml$', views.index,
         {'sitemaps': simple_sitemaps, 'template_name': 'custom_sitemap_index.xml'}),
-    (r'^simple/sitemap-(?P<section>.+)\.xml$', 'sitemap',
+    url(r'^simple/sitemap-(?P<section>.+)\.xml$', views.sitemap,
         {'sitemaps': simple_sitemaps}),
-    (r'^simple/sitemap\.xml$', 'sitemap', {'sitemaps': simple_sitemaps}),
-    (r'^simple/custom-sitemap\.xml$', 'sitemap',
+    url(r'^simple/sitemap\.xml$', views.sitemap, {'sitemaps': simple_sitemaps}),
+    url(r'^simple/custom-sitemap\.xml$', views.sitemap,
         {'sitemaps': simple_sitemaps, 'template_name': 'custom_sitemap.xml'}),
-    (r'^empty/sitemap\.xml$', 'sitemap', {'sitemaps': empty_sitemaps}),
-    (r'^lastmod/sitemap\.xml$', 'sitemap', {'sitemaps': fixed_lastmod_sitemaps}),
-    (r'^lastmod-mixed/sitemap\.xml$', 'sitemap', {'sitemaps': fixed_lastmod__mixed_sitemaps}),
-    (r'^generic/sitemap\.xml$', 'sitemap', {'sitemaps': generic_sitemaps}),
-    (r'^flatpages/sitemap\.xml$', 'sitemap', {'sitemaps': flatpage_sitemaps}),
+    url(r'^empty/sitemap\.xml$', views.sitemap, {'sitemaps': empty_sitemaps}),
+    url(r'^lastmod/sitemap\.xml$', views.sitemap, {'sitemaps': fixed_lastmod_sitemaps}),
+    url(r'^lastmod-mixed/sitemap\.xml$', views.sitemap, {'sitemaps': fixed_lastmod__mixed_sitemaps}),
+    url(r'^generic/sitemap\.xml$', views.sitemap, {'sitemaps': generic_sitemaps}),
+    url(r'^flatpages/sitemap\.xml$', views.sitemap, {'sitemaps': flatpage_sitemaps}),
     url(r'^cached/index\.xml$', cache_page(1)(views.index),
         {'sitemaps': simple_sitemaps, 'sitemap_url_name': 'cached_sitemap'}),
     url(r'^cached/sitemap-(?P<section>.+)\.xml', cache_page(1)(views.sitemap),
         {'sitemaps': simple_sitemaps}, name='cached_sitemap')
-)
+]
diff --git a/django/contrib/sitemaps/tests/urls/https.py b/django/contrib/sitemaps/tests/urls/https.py
index db2ef28d82..abadc6c739 100644
--- a/django/contrib/sitemaps/tests/urls/https.py
+++ b/django/contrib/sitemaps/tests/urls/https.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
+from django.contrib.sitemaps import views
 
 from .http import SimpleSitemap
 
@@ -10,8 +11,8 @@ secure_sitemaps = {
     'simple': HTTPSSitemap,
 }
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('django.contrib.sitemaps.views',
-    (r'^secure/index\.xml$', 'index', {'sitemaps': secure_sitemaps}),
-    (r'^secure/sitemap-(?P<section>.+)\.xml$', 'sitemap',
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^secure/index\.xml$', views.index, {'sitemaps': secure_sitemaps}),
+    url(r'^secure/sitemap-(?P<section>.+)\.xml$', views.sitemap,
         {'sitemaps': secure_sitemaps}),
-)
+]
diff --git a/docs/howto/static-files/index.txt b/docs/howto/static-files/index.txt
index f94e2601e4..39e5cf1b94 100644
--- a/docs/howto/static-files/index.txt
+++ b/docs/howto/static-files/index.txt
@@ -94,9 +94,9 @@ this by adding the following snippet to your urls.py::
     from django.conf import settings
     from django.conf.urls.static import static
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         # ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
-    ) + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
+    ] + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
 
 .. note::
 
@@ -124,9 +124,9 @@ this by adding the following snippet to your urls.py::
     from django.conf import settings
     from django.conf.urls.static import static
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         # ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
-    ) + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
+    ] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
 
 .. note::
 
diff --git a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
index e06765742e..dc51a5c9cc 100644
--- a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ about each item can often be found in the release notes of two versions prior.
 * ``cycle`` and ``firstof`` template tags will be removed from the ``future``
   template tag library (used during the 1.6/1.7 deprecation period).
 
+* ``django.conf.urls.patterns()`` will be removed.
+
+* Support for the ``prefix`` argument to
+  ``django.conf.urls.i18n.i18n_patterns()`` will be removed.
+
 .. _deprecation-removed-in-1.9:
 
 1.9
diff --git a/docs/intro/overview.txt b/docs/intro/overview.txt
index 6ec3baf0ec..70c4663153 100644
--- a/docs/intro/overview.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/overview.txt
@@ -184,13 +184,13 @@ to decouple URLs from Python code.
 Here's what a URLconf might look like for the ``Reporter``/``Article``
 example above::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns
+    from django.conf.urls import url
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^articles/(\d{4})/$', 'news.views.year_archive'),
-        (r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/$', 'news.views.month_archive'),
-        (r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/(\d+)/$', 'news.views.article_detail'),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/$', 'news.views.year_archive'),
+        url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/$', 'news.views.month_archive'),
+        url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/(\d+)/$', 'news.views.article_detail'),
+    ]
 
 The code above maps URLs, as simple `regular expressions`_, to the location of
 Python callback functions ("views"). The regular expressions use parenthesis to
diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt b/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt
index 5b2bee5fe7..3d4f65a720 100644
--- a/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt
@@ -92,13 +92,13 @@ In the ``polls/urls.py`` file include the following code:
 .. snippet::
     :filename: polls/urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
 
     from polls import views
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^$', views.index, name='index')
-    )
+    ]
 
 The next step is to point the root URLconf at the ``polls.urls`` module. In
 ``mysite/urls.py`` insert an :func:`~django.conf.urls.include`, leaving you
@@ -107,13 +107,13 @@ with:
 .. snippet::
     :filename: mysite/urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
+    from django.conf.urls import include, url
     from django.contrib import admin
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')),
         url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-    )
+    ]
 
 .. admonition:: Doesn't match what you see?
 
@@ -207,11 +207,11 @@ Wire these new views into the ``polls.urls`` module by adding the following
 .. snippet::
     :filename: polls/urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
 
     from polls import views
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         # ex: /polls/
         url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
         # ex: /polls/5/
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ Wire these new views into the ``polls.urls`` module by adding the following
         url(r'^(?P<question_id>\d+)/results/$', views.results, name='results'),
         # ex: /polls/5/vote/
         url(r'^(?P<question_id>\d+)/vote/$', views.vote, name='vote'),
-    )
+    ]
 
 Take a look in your browser, at "/polls/34/". It'll run the ``detail()``
 method and display whatever ID you provide in the URL. Try
@@ -583,13 +583,13 @@ it to include namespacing:
 .. snippet::
     :filename: mysite/urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
+    from django.conf.urls import include, url
     from django.contrib import admin
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace="polls")),
         url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-    )
+    ]
 
 Now change your ``polls/index.html`` template from:
 
diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial04.txt b/docs/intro/tutorial04.txt
index fbccb93a70..63d12d1a68 100644
--- a/docs/intro/tutorial04.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/tutorial04.txt
@@ -222,16 +222,16 @@ First, open the ``polls/urls.py`` URLconf and change it like so:
 .. snippet::
     :filename: polls/urls.py
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
 
     from polls import views
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^$', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
         url(r'^(?P<pk>\d+)/$', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),
         url(r'^(?P<pk>\d+)/results/$', views.ResultsView.as_view(), name='results'),
         url(r'^(?P<question_id>\d+)/vote/$', views.vote, name='vote'),
-    )
+    ]
 
 Amend views
 -----------
diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt
index fb98f9d80e..e8f5271e97 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt
@@ -39,13 +39,13 @@ View
 
     **Example urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+        from django.conf.urls import url
 
         from myapp.views import MyView
 
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        urlpatterns = [
             url(r'^mine/$', MyView.as_view(), name='my-view'),
-        )
+        ]
 
     **Attributes**
 
@@ -131,13 +131,13 @@ TemplateView
 
     **Example urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+        from django.conf.urls import url
 
         from myapp.views import HomePageView
 
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        urlpatterns = [
             url(r'^$', HomePageView.as_view(), name='home'),
-        )
+        ]
 
     **Context**
 
@@ -192,17 +192,16 @@ RedirectView
 
     **Example urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+        from django.conf.urls import url
         from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView
 
         from article.views import ArticleCounterRedirectView, ArticleDetail
 
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
-
+        urlpatterns = [
             url(r'^counter/(?P<pk>\d+)/$', ArticleCounterRedirectView.as_view(), name='article-counter'),
             url(r'^details/(?P<pk>\d+)/$', ArticleDetail.as_view(), name='article-detail'),
             url(r'^go-to-django/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='http://djangoproject.com'), name='go-to-django'),
-        )
+        ]
 
     **Attributes**
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt
index bf70f2313b..9d6d447052 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based.txt
@@ -65,16 +65,16 @@ ArchiveIndexView
 
     **Example myapp/views.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+        from django.conf.urls import url
         from django.views.generic.dates import ArchiveIndexView
 
         from myapp.models import Article
 
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        urlpatterns = [
             url(r'^archive/$',
                 ArchiveIndexView.as_view(model=Article, date_field="pub_date"),
                 name="article_archive"),
-        )
+        ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_archive.html**:
 
@@ -166,15 +166,15 @@ YearArchiveView
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+        from django.conf.urls import url
 
         from myapp.views import ArticleYearArchiveView
 
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        urlpatterns = [
             url(r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/$',
                 ArticleYearArchiveView.as_view(),
                 name="article_year_archive"),
-        )
+        ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_archive_year.html**:
 
@@ -261,11 +261,11 @@ MonthArchiveView
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+        from django.conf.urls import url
 
         from myapp.views import ArticleMonthArchiveView
 
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        urlpatterns = [
             # Example: /2012/aug/
             url(r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[-\w]+)/$',
                 ArticleMonthArchiveView.as_view(),
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ MonthArchiveView
             url(r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\d+)/$',
                 ArticleMonthArchiveView.as_view(month_format='%m'),
                 name="archive_month_numeric"),
-        )
+        ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_archive_month.html**:
 
@@ -355,16 +355,16 @@ WeekArchiveView
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+        from django.conf.urls import url
 
         from myapp.views import ArticleWeekArchiveView
 
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        urlpatterns = [
             # Example: /2012/week/23/
             url(r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/week/(?P<week>\d+)/$',
                 ArticleWeekArchiveView.as_view(),
                 name="archive_week"),
-        )
+        ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_archive_week.html**:
 
@@ -469,16 +469,16 @@ DayArchiveView
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+        from django.conf.urls import url
 
         from myapp.views import ArticleDayArchiveView
 
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        urlpatterns = [
             # Example: /2012/nov/10/
             url(r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[-\w]+)/(?P<day>\d+)/$',
                 ArticleDayArchiveView.as_view(),
                 name="archive_day"),
-        )
+        ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_archive_day.html**:
 
@@ -543,15 +543,15 @@ TodayArchiveView
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+        from django.conf.urls import url
 
         from myapp.views import ArticleTodayArchiveView
 
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        urlpatterns = [
             url(r'^today/$',
                 ArticleTodayArchiveView.as_view(),
                 name="archive_today"),
-        )
+        ]
 
     .. admonition:: Where is the example template for ``TodayArchiveView``?
 
@@ -593,14 +593,14 @@ DateDetailView
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+        from django.conf.urls import url
         from django.views.generic.dates import DateDetailView
 
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        urlpatterns = [
             url(r'^(?P<year>\d+)/(?P<month>[-\w]+)/(?P<day>\d+)/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
                 DateDetailView.as_view(model=Article, date_field="pub_date"),
                 name="archive_date_detail"),
-        )
+        ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_detail.html**:
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-display.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-display.txt
index 24006d48d3..1ca8125501 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-display.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/generic-display.txt
@@ -54,13 +54,13 @@ DetailView
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+        from django.conf.urls import url
 
         from article.views import ArticleDetailView
 
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        urlpatterns = [
             url(r'^(?P<slug>[-_\w]+)/$', ArticleDetailView.as_view(), name='article-detail'),
-        )
+        ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_detail.html**:
 
@@ -123,13 +123,13 @@ ListView
 
     **Example myapp/urls.py**::
 
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+        from django.conf.urls import url
 
         from article.views import ArticleListView
 
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        urlpatterns = [
             url(r'^$', ArticleListView.as_view(), name='article-list'),
-        )
+        ]
 
     **Example myapp/article_list.html**:
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/index.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/index.txt
index 821edc0874..81d5c560f9 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/index.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/index.txt
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ a thread-safe operation).
 A class-based view is deployed into a URL pattern using the
 :meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view()` classmethod::
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^view/$', MyView.as_view(size=42)),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^view/$', MyView.as_view(size=42)),
+    ]
 
 .. admonition:: Thread safety with view arguments
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
index 7ebe90060b..d999b11efe 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
@@ -1395,9 +1395,9 @@ templates used by the :class:`ModelAdmin` views:
         class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
             def get_urls(self):
                 urls = super(MyModelAdmin, self).get_urls()
-                my_urls = patterns('',
-                    (r'^my_view/$', self.my_view)
-                )
+                my_urls = [
+                    url(r'^my_view/$', self.my_view),
+                ]
                 return my_urls + urls
 
             def my_view(self, request):
@@ -1432,9 +1432,9 @@ templates used by the :class:`ModelAdmin` views:
         class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
             def get_urls(self):
                 urls = super(MyModelAdmin, self).get_urls()
-                my_urls = patterns('',
-                    (r'^my_view/$', self.admin_site.admin_view(self.my_view))
-                )
+                my_urls = [
+                    url(r'^my_view/$', self.admin_site.admin_view(self.my_view))
+                ]
                 return my_urls + urls
 
     Notice the wrapped view in the fifth line above::
@@ -2434,23 +2434,23 @@ In this example, we register the default ``AdminSite`` instance
 ``django.contrib.admin.site`` at the URL ``/admin/`` ::
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
+    from django.conf.urls import include, url
     from django.contrib import admin
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
+    ]
 
 In this example, we register the ``AdminSite`` instance
 ``myproject.admin.admin_site`` at the URL ``/myadmin/`` ::
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
+    from django.conf.urls import include, url
     from myproject.admin import admin_site
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^myadmin/', include(admin_site.urls)),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^myadmin/', include(admin_site.urls)),
+    ]
 
 Note that you may not want autodiscovery of ``admin`` modules when using your
 own ``AdminSite`` instance since you will likely be importing all the per-app
@@ -2472,13 +2472,13 @@ separate versions of the admin site -- using the ``AdminSite`` instances
 respectively::
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
+    from django.conf.urls import include, url
     from myproject.admin import basic_site, advanced_site
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^basic-admin/', include(basic_site.urls)),
-        (r'^advanced-admin/', include(advanced_site.urls)),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^basic-admin/', include(basic_site.urls)),
+        url(r'^advanced-admin/', include(advanced_site.urls)),
+    ]
 
 ``AdminSite`` instances take a single argument to their constructor, their
 name, which can be anything you like. This argument becomes the prefix to the
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/flatpages.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/flatpages.txt
index be9fe0c636..b280e0ddc4 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/flatpages.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/flatpages.txt
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ Then either:
 
 3. Add an entry in your URLconf. For example::
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^pages/', include('django.contrib.flatpages.urls')),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^pages/', include('django.contrib.flatpages.urls')),
+    ]
 
 or:
 
@@ -73,17 +73,19 @@ Using the URLconf
 There are several ways to include the flat pages in your URLconf. You can
 dedicate a particular path to flat pages::
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^pages/', include('django.contrib.flatpages.urls')),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^pages/', include('django.contrib.flatpages.urls')),
+    ]
 
 You can also set it up as a "catchall" pattern. In this case, it is important
 to place the pattern at the end of the other urlpatterns::
 
+    from django.contrib.flatpages import views
+
     # Your other patterns here
-    urlpatterns += patterns('django.contrib.flatpages.views',
-        (r'^(?P<url>.*/)$', 'flatpage'),
-    )
+    urlpatterns += [
+        url(r'^(?P<url>.*/)$', views.flatpage),
+    ]
 
 .. warning::
 
@@ -95,10 +97,12 @@ Another common setup is to use flat pages for a limited set of known pages and
 to hard code the urls, so you can reference them with the :ttag:`url` template
 tag::
 
-    urlpatterns += patterns('django.contrib.flatpages.views',
-        url(r'^about-us/$', 'flatpage', {'url': '/about-us/'}, name='about'),
-        url(r'^license/$', 'flatpage', {'url': '/license/'}, name='license'),
-    )
+    from django.contrib.flatpages import views
+
+    urlpatterns += [
+        url(r'^about-us/$', views.flatpage, {'url': '/about-us/'}, name='about'),
+        url(r'^license/$', views.flatpage, {'url': '/license/'}, name='license'),
+    ]
 
 Using the middleware
 --------------------
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/formtools/form-wizard.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/formtools/form-wizard.txt
index 2934893776..054c027ea8 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/formtools/form-wizard.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/formtools/form-wizard.txt
@@ -251,14 +251,14 @@ deploy the new :class:`WizardView` object at a URL in the ``urls.py``. The
 wizard's ``as_view()`` method takes a list of your
 :class:`~django.forms.Form` classes as an argument during instantiation::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns
+    from django.conf.urls import url
 
     from myapp.forms import ContactForm1, ContactForm2
     from myapp.views import ContactWizard
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^contact/$', ContactWizard.as_view([ContactForm1, ContactForm2])),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^contact/$', ContactWizard.as_view([ContactForm1, ContactForm2])),
+    ]
 
 You can also pass the form list as a class attribute named ``form_list``::
 
@@ -311,9 +311,9 @@ Here's what the view code might look like::
 
 The ``urls.py`` file would contain something like::
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^checkout/$', OrderWizard.as_view(FORMS, condition_dict={'cc': pay_by_credit_card})),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^checkout/$', OrderWizard.as_view(FORMS, condition_dict={'cc': pay_by_credit_card})),
+    ]
 
 The ``condition_dict`` can be passed as attribute for the ``as_view()`
 method or as a class attribute named ``condition_dict``::
@@ -673,18 +673,18 @@ We define our wizard in a ``views.py``::
 
 We need to add the ``ContactWizard`` to our ``urls.py`` file::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns
+    from django.conf.urls import url
 
     from myapp.forms import ContactForm1, ContactForm2
     from myapp.views import ContactWizard, show_message_form_condition
 
     contact_forms = [ContactForm1, ContactForm2]
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^contact/$', ContactWizard.as_view(contact_forms,
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^contact/$', ContactWizard.as_view(contact_forms,
             condition_dict={'1': show_message_form_condition}
         )),
-    )
+    ]
 
 As you can see, we defined a ``show_message_form_condition`` next to our
 :class:`WizardView` subclass and added a ``condition_dict`` argument to the
@@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ Additionally you have to pass two more arguments to the
 
 Example code for the changed ``urls.py`` file::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import url, patterns
+    from django.conf.urls import url
 
     from myapp.forms import ContactForm1, ContactForm2
     from myapp.views import ContactWizard
@@ -741,10 +741,10 @@ Example code for the changed ``urls.py`` file::
     contact_wizard = ContactWizard.as_view(named_contact_forms,
         url_name='contact_step', done_step_name='finished')
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^contact/(?P<step>.+)/$', contact_wizard, name='contact_step'),
         url(r'^contact/$', contact_wizard, name='contact'),
-    )
+    ]
 
 Advanced ``NamedUrlWizardView`` methods
 =======================================
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt
index 24470e8227..fee293728e 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt
@@ -730,12 +730,12 @@ Let's dive right in.  Create a file called ``admin.py`` inside the
 
 Next, edit your ``urls.py`` in the ``geodjango`` application folder as follows::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
+    from django.conf.urls import url, include
     from django.contrib.gis import admin
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-    )
+    ]
 
 Start up the Django development server:
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt
index fefe90a420..12ed61b97a 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ Example
 
 Here's an example of a :doc:`URLconf </topics/http/urls>` using both::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from django.contrib.sitemaps import FlatPageSitemap, GenericSitemap
     from blog.models import Entry
 
@@ -279,13 +279,13 @@ Here's an example of a :doc:`URLconf </topics/http/urls>` using both::
         'blog': GenericSitemap(info_dict, priority=0.6),
     }
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         # some generic view using info_dict
         # ...
 
         # the sitemap
-        (r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap', {'sitemaps': sitemaps})
-    )
+        url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap', {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),
+    ]
 
 .. _URLconf: ../url_dispatch/
 
@@ -313,20 +313,20 @@ the sitemap. For example::
             return reverse(item)
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from .sitemaps import StaticViewSitemap
 
     sitemaps = {
         'static': StaticViewSitemap,
     }
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         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})
-    )
+    ]
 
 
 Creating a sitemap index
@@ -345,10 +345,12 @@ references individual sitemap files, one per each section defined in your
 
 Here's what the relevant URLconf lines would look like for the example above::
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('django.contrib.sitemaps.views',
-        (r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'index', {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),
-        (r'^sitemap-(?P<section>.+)\.xml$', 'sitemap', {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),
-    )
+    from django.contrib.sitemaps import views
+
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', views.index, {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),
+        url(r'^sitemap-(?P<section>.+)\.xml$', views.sitemap, {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),
+    ]
 
 This will automatically generate a :file:`sitemap.xml` file that references
 both :file:`sitemap-flatpages.xml` and :file:`sitemap-blog.xml`. The
@@ -366,14 +368,14 @@ with a caching decorator -- you must name your sitemap view and pass
     from django.contrib.sitemaps import views as sitemaps_views
     from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^sitemap\.xml$',
             cache_page(86400)(sitemaps_views.index),
             {'sitemaps': sitemaps, 'sitemap_url_name': 'sitemaps'}),
         url(r'^sitemap-(?P<section>.+)\.xml$',
             cache_page(86400)(sitemaps_views.sitemap),
             {'sitemaps': sitemaps}, name='sitemaps'),
-    )
+    ]
 
 
 Template customization
@@ -383,16 +385,18 @@ If you wish to use a different template for each sitemap or sitemap index
 available on your site, you may specify it by passing a ``template_name``
 parameter to the ``sitemap`` and ``index`` views via the URLconf::
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('django.contrib.sitemaps.views',
-        (r'^custom-sitemap\.xml$', 'index', {
+    from django.contrib.sitemaps import views
+
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^custom-sitemap\.xml$', views.index, {
             'sitemaps': sitemaps,
             'template_name': 'custom_sitemap.html'
         }),
-        (r'^custom-sitemap-(?P<section>.+)\.xml$', 'sitemap', {
+        url(r'^custom-sitemap-(?P<section>.+)\.xml$', views.sitemap, {
             'sitemaps': sitemaps,
             'template_name': 'custom_sitemap.html'
         }),
-    )
+    ]
 
 
 These views return :class:`~django.template.response.TemplateResponse`
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/staticfiles.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/staticfiles.txt
index 961abf5c5d..8f7ba0a6fe 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/staticfiles.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/staticfiles.txt
@@ -445,11 +445,12 @@ local development server, add the following snippet to the end of your
 primary URL configuration::
 
    from django.conf import settings
+   from django.contrib.staticfiles import views
 
    if settings.DEBUG:
-       urlpatterns += patterns('django.contrib.staticfiles.views',
-           url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'serve'),
-       )
+       urlpatterns += [
+           url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', views.serve),
+       ]
 
 Note, the beginning of the pattern (``r'^static/'``) should be your
 :setting:`STATIC_URL` setting.
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/syndication.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/syndication.txt
index 61adfef35d..b2ebf40e61 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/syndication.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/syndication.txt
@@ -77,14 +77,14 @@ a feed of the latest five news items::
 To connect a URL to this feed, put an instance of the Feed object in
 your :doc:`URLconf </topics/http/urls>`. For example::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from myproject.feeds import LatestEntriesFeed
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         # ...
-        (r'^latest/feed/$', LatestEntriesFeed()),
+        url(r'^latest/feed/$', LatestEntriesFeed()),
         # ...
-    )
+    ]
 
 Note:
 
@@ -366,15 +366,15 @@ Here's a full example::
 
 And the accompanying URLconf::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from myproject.feeds import RssSiteNewsFeed, AtomSiteNewsFeed
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         # ...
-        (r'^sitenews/rss/$', RssSiteNewsFeed()),
-        (r'^sitenews/atom/$', AtomSiteNewsFeed()),
+        url(r'^sitenews/rss/$', RssSiteNewsFeed()),
+        url(r'^sitenews/atom/$', AtomSiteNewsFeed()),
         # ...
-    )
+    ]
 
 Feed class reference
 --------------------
diff --git a/docs/ref/urls.txt b/docs/ref/urls.txt
index 1806e1980f..47ef488afc 100644
--- a/docs/ref/urls.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/urls.txt
@@ -9,11 +9,42 @@ patterns()
 
 .. function:: patterns(prefix, pattern_description, ...)
 
+.. deprecated:: 1.8
+
+    ``urlpatterns`` should be a plain list of :func:`django.conf.urls.url`
+    instances instead.
+
 A function that takes a prefix, and an arbitrary number of URL patterns, and
 returns a list of URL patterns in the format Django needs.
 
-The first argument to ``patterns()`` is a string ``prefix``. See
-:ref:`The view prefix <urlpatterns-view-prefix>`.
+The first argument to ``patterns()`` is a string ``prefix``. Here's the example
+URLconf from the :doc:`Django overview </intro/overview>`::
+
+    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+
+    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/$', 'news.views.year_archive'),
+        url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/$', 'news.views.month_archive'),
+        url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/(\d+)/$', 'news.views.article_detail'),
+    )
+
+In this example, each view has a common prefix -- ``'news.views'``.
+Instead of typing that out for each entry in ``urlpatterns``, you can use the
+first argument to the ``patterns()`` function to specify a prefix to apply to
+each view function.
+
+With this in mind, the above example can be written more concisely as::
+
+    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+
+    urlpatterns = patterns('news.views',
+        url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/$', 'year_archive'),
+        url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/$', 'month_archive'),
+        url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/(\d+)/$', 'article_detail'),
+    )
+
+Note that you don't put a trailing dot (``"."``) in the prefix. Django puts
+that in automatically.
 
 The remaining arguments should be tuples in this format::
 
@@ -54,23 +85,21 @@ Helper function to return a URL pattern for serving files in debug mode::
     from django.conf import settings
     from django.conf.urls.static import static
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         # ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
-    ) + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
+    ] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
 
 url()
 -----
 
 .. function:: url(regex, view, kwargs=None, name=None, prefix='')
 
-You can use the ``url()`` function, instead of a tuple, as an argument to
-``patterns()``. This is convenient if you want to specify a name without the
-optional extra arguments dictionary. For example::
+``urlpatterns`` should be a list of ``url()`` instances. For example::
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^index/$', index_view, name="main-view"),
         ...
-    )
+    ]
 
 This function takes five arguments, most of which are optional::
 
@@ -107,7 +136,7 @@ include()
     :type namespace: string
     :arg app_name: Application namespace for the URL entries being included
     :type app_name: string
-    :arg pattern_list: Iterable of URL entries as returned by :func:`patterns`
+    :arg pattern_list: Iterable of :func:`django.conf.urls.url` instances
     :arg app_namespace: Application namespace for the URL entries being included
     :type app_namespace: string
     :arg instance_namespace: Instance namespace for the URL entries being included
diff --git a/docs/ref/views.txt b/docs/ref/views.txt
index 8c9c3e3ed8..c5d36abe0a 100644
--- a/docs/ref/views.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/views.txt
@@ -26,15 +26,16 @@ built-in handling for user-uploaded files, but you can have Django serve your
 :setting:`MEDIA_ROOT` by appending something like this to your URLconf::
 
     from django.conf import settings
+    from django.views.static import serve
 
     # ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
 
     if settings.DEBUG:
-        urlpatterns += patterns('',
-            url(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {
+        urlpatterns += [
+            url(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', serve, {
                 'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT,
             }),
-       )
+       ]
 
 Note, the snippet assumes your :setting:`MEDIA_URL` has a value of
 ``'/media/'``. This will call the :func:`~django.views.static.serve` view,
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
index d86836a50f..6112ea4744 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
@@ -203,3 +203,62 @@ Django 1.6 introduced ``{% load cycle from future %}`` and
 :ttag:`cycle` and :ttag:`firstof` template tags. This syntax is now deprecated
 and will be removed in Django 2.0. You can simply remove the
 ``{% load ... from future %}`` tags.
+
+``django.conf.urls.patterns()``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+In the olden days of Django, it was encouraged to reference views as strings
+in ``urlpatterns``::
+
+    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        url('^$', 'myapp.views.myview'),
+    )
+
+and Django would magically import ``myapp.views.myview`` internally and turn
+the string into a real function reference. In order to reduce repetition when
+referencing many views from the same module, the ``patterns()`` function takes
+a required initial ``prefix`` argument which is prepended to all
+views-as-strings in that set of ``urlpatterns``::
+
+    urlpatterns = patterns('myapp.views',
+        url('^$', 'myview'),
+        url('^other/$', 'otherview'),
+    )
+
+In the modern era, we have updated the tutorial to instead recommend importing
+your views module and referencing your view functions (or classes) directly.
+This has a number of advantages, all deriving from the fact that we are using
+normal Python in place of "Django String Magic": the errors when you mistype a
+view name are less obscure, IDEs can help with autocompletion of view names,
+etc.
+
+So these days, the above use of the ``prefix`` arg is much more likely to be
+written (and is better written) as::
+
+    from myapp import views
+
+    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        url('^$', views.myview),
+        url('^other/$', views.otherview),
+    )
+
+Thus ``patterns()`` serves little purpose and is a burden when teaching new users
+(answering the newbie's question "why do I need this empty string as the first
+argument to ``patterns()``?"). For these reasons, we are deprecating it.
+Updating your code is as simple as ensuring that ``urlpatterns`` is a string of
+:func:`django.conf.urls.url` instances. For example::
+
+    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from myapp import views
+
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url('^$', views.myview),
+        url('^other/$', views.otherview),
+    ]
+
+``prefix`` argument to :func:`~django.conf.urls.i18n.i18n_patterns`
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Related to the previous item, the ``prefix`` argument to
+:func:`django.conf.urls.i18n.i18n_patterns` has been deprecated. Simply pass a
+list of :func:`django.conf.urls.url` instances instead.
diff --git a/docs/spelling_wordlist b/docs/spelling_wordlist
index 78626ae2de..df695587e2 100644
--- a/docs/spelling_wordlist
+++ b/docs/spelling_wordlist
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ attr
 auth
 autoclobber
 autocommit
+autocompletion
 autoconf
 autodetect
 autodetectable
diff --git a/docs/topics/cache.txt b/docs/topics/cache.txt
index f9623b324b..feeaf37a47 100644
--- a/docs/topics/cache.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/cache.txt
@@ -532,9 +532,9 @@ The per-view cache, like the per-site cache, is keyed off of the URL. If
 multiple URLs point at the same view, each URL will be cached separately.
 Continuing the ``my_view`` example, if your URLconf looks like this::
 
-    urlpatterns = ('',
-        (r'^foo/(\d{1,2})/$', my_view),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^foo/(\d{1,2})/$', my_view),
+    ]
 
 then requests to ``/foo/1/`` and ``/foo/23/`` will be cached separately, as
 you may expect. But once a particular URL (e.g., ``/foo/23/``) has been
@@ -578,17 +578,17 @@ themselves.
 Doing so is easy: simply wrap the view function with ``cache_page`` when you
 refer to it in the URLconf. Here's the old URLconf from earlier::
 
-    urlpatterns = ('',
-        (r'^foo/(\d{1,2})/$', my_view),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^foo/(\d{1,2})/$', my_view),
+    ]
 
 Here's the same thing, with ``my_view`` wrapped in ``cache_page``::
 
     from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page
 
-    urlpatterns = ('',
-        (r'^foo/(\d{1,2})/$', cache_page(60 * 15)(my_view)),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^foo/(\d{1,2})/$', cache_page(60 * 15)(my_view)),
+    ]
 
 .. templatetag:: cache
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-display.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-display.txt
index 9c5527dac5..98d2b79d32 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-display.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-display.txt
@@ -119,12 +119,12 @@ Now we need to define a view::
 Finally hook that view into your urls::
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from books.views import PublisherList
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^publishers/$', PublisherList.as_view()),
-    )
+    ]
 
 That's all the Python code we need to write. We still need to write a template,
 however. We could explicitly tell the view which template to use by adding a
@@ -330,12 +330,12 @@ various useful things are stored on ``self``; as well as the request
 Here, we have a URLconf with a single captured group::
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from books.views import PublisherBookList
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^books/([\w-]+)/$', PublisherBookList.as_view()),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^books/([\w-]+)/$', PublisherBookList.as_view()),
+    ]
 
 Next, we'll write the ``PublisherBookList`` view itself::
 
@@ -396,13 +396,13 @@ updated.
 First, we'd need to add an author detail bit in the URLconf to point to a
 custom view::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from books.views import AuthorDetailView
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         #...
         url(r'^authors/(?P<pk>\d+)/$', AuthorDetailView.as_view(), name='author-detail'),
-    )
+    ]
 
 Then we'd write our new view -- ``get_object`` is the method that retrieves the
 object -- so we simply override it and wrap the call::
diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt
index 44680148ab..2587c9426d 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/generic-editing.txt
@@ -141,15 +141,15 @@ an :exc:`~django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured` exception if it's not.
 Finally, we hook these new views into the URLconf::
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from myapp.views import AuthorCreate, AuthorUpdate, AuthorDelete
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         # ...
         url(r'author/add/$', AuthorCreate.as_view(), name='author_add'),
         url(r'author/(?P<pk>\d+)/$', AuthorUpdate.as_view(), name='author_update'),
         url(r'author/(?P<pk>\d+)/delete/$', AuthorDelete.as_view(), name='author_delete'),
-    )
+    ]
 
 .. note::
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/index.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/index.txt
index 84e4597842..dc77f04721 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/index.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/index.txt
@@ -38,12 +38,12 @@ URLconf. If you're only changing a few simple attributes on a class-based view,
 you can simply pass them into the
 :meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view` method call itself::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^about/', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="about.html")),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^about/', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="about.html")),
+    ]
 
 Any arguments passed to :meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view` will
 override attributes set on the class. In this example, we set ``template_name``
@@ -75,12 +75,12 @@ class method instead, which provides a function-like entry to class-based
 views::
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from some_app.views import AboutView
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^about/', AboutView.as_view()),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^about/', AboutView.as_view()),
+    ]
 
 
 For more information on how to use the built in generic views, consult the next
@@ -100,12 +100,12 @@ preferable to ask the API when the most recent book was published.
 
 We map the URL to book list view in the URLconf::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from books.views import BookListView
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^books/$', BookListView.as_view()),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^books/$', BookListView.as_view()),
+    ]
 
 And the view::
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt
index dbd7a83a31..53f32198c6 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt
@@ -89,12 +89,12 @@ request to a matching method if one is defined, or raises
 :class:`~django.http.HttpResponseNotAllowed` if not::
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from myapp.views import MyView
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^about/', MyView.as_view()),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^about/', MyView.as_view()),
+    ]
 
 
 It is worth noting that what your method returns is identical to what you
@@ -129,9 +129,9 @@ You can override that in a subclass::
 Another option is to configure class attributes as keyword arguments to the
 :meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.as_view` call in the URLconf::
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^about/', GreetingView.as_view(greeting="G'day")),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^about/', GreetingView.as_view(greeting="G'day")),
+    ]
 
 .. note::
 
@@ -268,10 +268,10 @@ The easiest place to do this is in the URLconf where you deploy your view::
 
     from .views import VoteView
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^about/', login_required(TemplateView.as_view(template_name="secret.html"))),
-        (r'^vote/', permission_required('polls.can_vote')(VoteView.as_view())),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^about/', login_required(TemplateView.as_view(template_name="secret.html"))),
+        url(r'^vote/', permission_required('polls.can_vote')(VoteView.as_view())),
+    ]
 
 This approach applies the decorator on a per-instance basis. If you
 want every instance of a view to be decorated, you need to take a
diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/mixins.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/mixins.txt
index f0bacca6c1..00729f36f9 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/mixins.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/mixins.txt
@@ -256,13 +256,13 @@ mixin.
 We can hook this into our URLs easily enough::
 
     # urls.py
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from books.views import RecordInterest
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         #...
         url(r'^author/(?P<pk>\d+)/interest/$', RecordInterest.as_view(), name='author-interest'),
-    )
+    ]
 
 Note the ``pk`` named group, which
 :meth:`~django.views.generic.detail.SingleObjectMixin.get_object` uses
diff --git a/docs/topics/http/urls.txt b/docs/topics/http/urls.txt
index 46086bc420..05525cc715 100644
--- a/docs/topics/http/urls.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/http/urls.txt
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ algorithm the system follows to determine which Python code to execute:
    will be used in place of the :setting:`ROOT_URLCONF` setting.
 
 2. Django loads that Python module and looks for the variable
-   ``urlpatterns``. This should be a Python list, in the format returned by
-   the function :func:`django.conf.urls.patterns`.
+   ``urlpatterns``. This should be a Python list of :func:`django.conf.urls.url`
+   instances.
 
 3. Django runs through each URL pattern, in order, and stops at the first
    one that matches the requested URL.
@@ -72,14 +72,14 @@ Example
 
 Here's a sample URLconf::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^articles/2003/$', 'news.views.special_case_2003'),
         url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/$', 'news.views.year_archive'),
         url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/$', 'news.views.month_archive'),
         url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/(\d+)/$', 'news.views.article_detail'),
-    )
+    ]
 
 Notes:
 
@@ -129,14 +129,14 @@ is ``(?P<name>pattern)``, where ``name`` is the name of the group and
 
 Here's the above example URLconf, rewritten to use named groups::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^articles/2003/$', 'news.views.special_case_2003'),
         url(r'^articles/(?P<year>\d{4})/$', 'news.views.year_archive'),
         url(r'^articles/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\d{2})/$', 'news.views.month_archive'),
         url(r'^articles/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\d{2})/(?P<day>\d{2})/$', 'news.views.article_detail'),
-    )
+    ]
 
 This accomplishes exactly the same thing as the previous example, with one
 subtle difference: The captured values are passed to view functions as keyword
@@ -203,12 +203,12 @@ A convenient trick is to specify default parameters for your views' arguments.
 Here's an example URLconf and view::
 
     # URLconf
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^blog/$', 'blog.views.page'),
         url(r'^blog/page(?P<num>\d+)/$', 'blog.views.page'),
-    )
+    ]
 
     # View (in blog/views.py)
     def page(request, num="1"):
@@ -230,9 +230,8 @@ accessed. This makes the system blazingly fast.
 Syntax of the urlpatterns variable
 ==================================
 
-``urlpatterns`` should be a Python list, in the format returned by the function
-:func:`django.conf.urls.patterns`. Always use ``patterns()`` to create
-the ``urlpatterns`` variable.
+``urlpatterns`` should be a Python list of :func:`~django.conf.urls.url`
+instances.
 
 Error handling
 ==============
@@ -260,73 +259,6 @@ The variables are:
 * ``handler403`` -- See :data:`django.conf.urls.handler403`.
 * ``handler400`` -- See :data:`django.conf.urls.handler400`.
 
-.. _urlpatterns-view-prefix:
-
-The view prefix
-===============
-
-You can specify a common prefix in your ``patterns()`` call, to cut down on
-code duplication.
-
-Here's the example URLconf from the :doc:`Django overview </intro/overview>`::
-
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
-
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/$', 'news.views.year_archive'),
-        url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/$', 'news.views.month_archive'),
-        url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/(\d+)/$', 'news.views.article_detail'),
-    )
-
-In this example, each view has a common prefix -- ``'news.views'``.
-Instead of typing that out for each entry in ``urlpatterns``, you can use the
-first argument to the ``patterns()`` function to specify a prefix to apply to
-each view function.
-
-With this in mind, the above example can be written more concisely as::
-
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
-
-    urlpatterns = patterns('news.views',
-        url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/$', 'year_archive'),
-        url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/$', 'month_archive'),
-        url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/(\d+)/$', 'article_detail'),
-    )
-
-Note that you don't put a trailing dot (``"."``) in the prefix. Django puts
-that in automatically.
-
-Multiple view prefixes
-----------------------
-
-In practice, you'll probably end up mixing and matching views to the point
-where the views in your ``urlpatterns`` won't have a common prefix. However,
-you can still take advantage of the view prefix shortcut to remove duplication.
-Just add multiple ``patterns()`` objects together, like this:
-
-Old::
-
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
-
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        url(r'^$', 'myapp.views.app_index'),
-        url(r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/$', 'myapp.views.month_display'),
-        url(r'^tag/(?P<tag>\w+)/$', 'weblog.views.tag'),
-    )
-
-New::
-
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
-
-    urlpatterns = patterns('myapp.views',
-        url(r'^$', 'app_index'),
-        url(r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/$','month_display'),
-    )
-
-    urlpatterns += patterns('weblog.views',
-        url(r'^tag/(?P<tag>\w+)/$', 'tag'),
-    )
-
 .. _including-other-urlconfs:
 
 Including other URLconfs
@@ -338,14 +270,14 @@ essentially "roots" a set of URLs below other ones.
 For example, here's an excerpt of the URLconf for the `Django Web site`_
 itself. It includes a number of other URLconfs::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import include, patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import include, url
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         # ... snip ...
         url(r'^community/', include('django_website.aggregator.urls')),
         url(r'^contact/', include('django_website.contact.urls')),
         # ... snip ...
-    )
+    ]
 
 Note that the regular expressions in this example don't have a ``$``
 (end-of-string match character) but do include a trailing slash. Whenever
@@ -353,23 +285,21 @@ Django encounters ``include()`` (:func:`django.conf.urls.include()`), it chops
 off whatever part of the URL matched up to that point and sends the remaining
 string to the included URLconf for further processing.
 
-Another possibility is to include additional URL patterns not by specifying the
-URLconf Python module defining them as the ``include()`` argument but by using
-directly the pattern list as returned by :func:`~django.conf.urls.patterns`
-instead. For example, consider this URLconf::
+Another possibility is to include additional URL patterns by using a list of
+:func:`~django.conf.urls.url` instances. For example, consider this URLconf::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import include, patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import include, url
 
-    extra_patterns = patterns('',
+    extra_patterns = [
         url(r'^reports/(?P<id>\d+)/$', 'credit.views.report'),
         url(r'^charge/$', 'credit.views.charge'),
-    )
+    ]
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^$', 'apps.main.views.homepage'),
         url(r'^help/', include('apps.help.urls')),
         url(r'^credit/', include(extra_patterns)),
-    )
+    ]
 
 In this example, the ``/credit/reports/`` URL will be handled by the
 ``credit.views.report()`` Django view.
@@ -377,28 +307,30 @@ In this example, the ``/credit/reports/`` URL will be handled by the
 This can be used to remove redundancy from URLconfs where a single pattern
 prefix is used repeatedly. For example, consider this URLconf::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from . import views
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('wiki.views',
-        url(r'^(?P<page_slug>\w+)-(?P<page_id>\w+)/history/$', 'history'),
-        url(r'^(?P<page_slug>\w+)-(?P<page_id>\w+)/edit/$', 'edit'),
-        url(r'^(?P<page_slug>\w+)-(?P<page_id>\w+)/discuss/$', 'discuss'),
-        url(r'^(?P<page_slug>\w+)-(?P<page_id>\w+)/permissions/$', 'permissions'),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^(?P<page_slug>\w+)-(?P<page_id>\w+)/history/$', views.history),
+        url(r'^(?P<page_slug>\w+)-(?P<page_id>\w+)/edit/$', views.edit),
+        url(r'^(?P<page_slug>\w+)-(?P<page_id>\w+)/discuss/$', views.discuss),
+        url(r'^(?P<page_slug>\w+)-(?P<page_id>\w+)/permissions/$', views.permissions),
+    ]
 
 We can improve this by stating the common path prefix only once and grouping
 the suffixes that differ::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import include, patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import include, url
+    from . import views
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        url(r'^(?P<page_slug>\w+)-(?P<page_id>\w+)/', include(patterns('wiki.views',
-            url(r'^history/$', 'history'),
-            url(r'^edit/$', 'edit'),
-            url(r'^discuss/$', 'discuss'),
-            url(r'^permissions/$', 'permissions'),
-        ))),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^(?P<page_slug>\w+)-(?P<page_id>\w+)/', include([
+            url(r'^history/$', views.history),
+            url(r'^edit/$', views.edit),
+            url(r'^discuss/$', views.discuss),
+            url(r'^permissions/$', views.permissions),
+        ])),
+    ]
 
 .. _`Django Web site`: https://www.djangoproject.com/
 
@@ -409,19 +341,20 @@ An included URLconf receives any captured parameters from parent URLconfs, so
 the following example is valid::
 
     # In settings/urls/main.py
-    from django.conf.urls import include, patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import include, url
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^(?P<username>\w+)/blog/', include('foo.urls.blog')),
-    )
+    ]
 
     # In foo/urls/blog.py
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from . import views
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('foo.views',
-        url(r'^$', 'blog.index'),
-        url(r'^archive/$', 'blog.archive'),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^$', views.blog.index),
+        url(r'^archive/$', views.blog.archive),
+    ]
 
 In the above example, the captured ``"username"`` variable is passed to the
 included URLconf, as expected.
@@ -440,11 +373,12 @@ function.
 
 For example::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from . import views
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('blog.views',
-        url(r'^blog/(?P<year>\d{4})/$', 'year_archive', {'foo': 'bar'}),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^blog/(?P<year>\d{4})/$', views.year_archive, {'foo': 'bar'}),
+    ]
 
 In this example, for a request to ``/blog/2005/``, Django will call
 ``blog.views.year_archive(request, year='2005', foo='bar')``.
@@ -472,36 +406,38 @@ For example, these two URLconf sets are functionally identical:
 Set one::
 
     # main.py
-    from django.conf.urls import include, patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import include, url
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^blog/', include('inner'), {'blogid': 3}),
-    )
+    ]
 
     # inner.py
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
+    from mysite import views
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        url(r'^archive/$', 'mysite.views.archive'),
-        url(r'^about/$', 'mysite.views.about'),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^archive/$', views.archive),
+        url(r'^about/$', views.about),
+    ]
 
 Set two::
 
     # main.py
-    from django.conf.urls import include, patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import include, url
+    from mysite import views
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^blog/', include('inner')),
-    )
+    ]
 
     # inner.py
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        url(r'^archive/$', 'mysite.views.archive', {'blogid': 3}),
-        url(r'^about/$', 'mysite.views.about', {'blogid': 3}),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^archive/$', views.archive, {'blogid': 3}),
+        url(r'^about/$', views.about, {'blogid': 3}),
+    ]
 
 Note that extra options will *always* be passed to *every* line in the included
 URLconf, regardless of whether the line's view actually accepts those options
@@ -517,38 +453,38 @@ supported -- you can pass any callable object as the view.
 
 For example, given this URLconf in "string" notation::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^archive/$', 'mysite.views.archive'),
         url(r'^about/$', 'mysite.views.about'),
         url(r'^contact/$', 'mysite.views.contact'),
-    )
+    ]
 
 You can accomplish the same thing by passing objects rather than strings. Just
 be sure to import the objects::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from mysite.views import archive, about, contact
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^archive/$', archive),
         url(r'^about/$', about),
         url(r'^contact/$', contact),
-    )
+    ]
 
 The following example is functionally identical. It's just a bit more compact
 because it imports the module that contains the views, rather than importing
 each view individually::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from mysite import views
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^archive/$', views.archive),
         url(r'^about/$', views.about),
         url(r'^contact/$', views.contact),
-    )
+    ]
 
 The style you use is up to you.
 
@@ -558,12 +494,12 @@ the view prefix (as explained in "The view prefix" above) will have no effect.
 Note that :doc:`class based views</topics/class-based-views/index>` must be
 imported::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from mysite.views import ClassBasedView
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^myview/$', ClassBasedView.as_view()),
-    )
+    ]
 
 Reverse resolution of URLs
 ==========================
@@ -618,13 +554,13 @@ Examples
 
 Consider again this URLconf entry::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         #...
         url(r'^articles/(\d{4})/$', 'news.views.year_archive'),
         #...
-    )
+    ]
 
 According to this design, the URL for the archive corresponding to year *nnnn*
 is ``/articles/nnnn/``.
@@ -670,13 +606,13 @@ It's fairly common to use the same view function in multiple URL patterns in
 your URLconf. For example, these two URL patterns both point to the ``archive``
 view::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from mysite.views import archive
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^archive/(\d{4})/$', archive),
         url(r'^archive-summary/(\d{4})/$', archive, {'summary': True}),
-    )
+    ]
 
 This is completely valid, but it leads to problems when you try to do reverse
 URL matching (through the :func:`~django.core.urlresolvers.reverse` function
@@ -691,13 +627,13 @@ matching.
 
 Here's the above example, rewritten to use named URL patterns::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import url
     from mysite.views import archive
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^archive/(\d{4})/$', archive, name="full-archive"),
         url(r'^archive-summary/(\d{4})/$', archive, {'summary': True}, name="arch-summary"),
-    )
+    ]
 
 With these names in place (``full-archive`` and ``arch-summary``), you can
 target each pattern individually by using its name:
@@ -859,20 +795,20 @@ This will include the URLs defined in ``apps.help.urls`` into the
 ``'foo'``.
 
 Secondly, you can include an object that contains embedded namespace data. If
-you ``include()`` an object as returned by :func:`~django.conf.urls.patterns`,
+you ``include()`` a list of :func:`django.conf.urls.url` instances,
 the URLs contained in that object will be added to the global namespace.
 However, you can also ``include()`` a 3-tuple containing::
 
-    (<patterns object>, <application namespace>, <instance namespace>)
+    (<list of url() instances>, <application namespace>, <instance namespace>)
 
 For example::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import include, patterns, url
+    from django.conf.urls import include, url
 
-    help_patterns = patterns('',
+    help_patterns = [
         url(r'^basic/$', 'apps.help.views.views.basic'),
         url(r'^advanced/$', 'apps.help.views.views.advanced'),
-    )
+    ]
 
     url(r'^help/', include((help_patterns, 'bar', 'foo'))),
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
index 16742ab622..3d48344643 100644
--- a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt
@@ -911,13 +911,15 @@ URL. Paths listed in :setting:`LOCALE_PATHS` are also included.
 
 You hook it up like this::
 
+    from django.views.i18n import javascript_catalog
+
     js_info_dict = {
         'packages': ('your.app.package',),
     }
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^jsi18n/$', 'django.views.i18n.javascript_catalog', js_info_dict),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^jsi18n/$', javascript_catalog, js_info_dict),
+    ]
 
 Each string in ``packages`` should be in Python dotted-package syntax (the
 same format as the strings in :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS`) and should refer to a
@@ -935,9 +937,9 @@ changed by altering the ``domain`` argument.
 
 You can make the view dynamic by putting the packages into the URL pattern::
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        (r'^jsi18n/(?P<packages>\S+?)/$', 'django.views.i18n.javascript_catalog'),
-    )
+    urlpatterns = [
+        url(r'^jsi18n/(?P<packages>\S+?)/$', javascript_catalog),
+    ]
 
 With this, you specify the packages as a list of package names delimited by '+'
 signs in the URL. This is especially useful if your pages use code from
@@ -1085,25 +1087,30 @@ Language prefix in URL patterns
 
 .. function:: i18n_patterns(prefix, pattern_description, ...)
 
-This function can be used in your root URLconf as a replacement for the normal
-:func:`django.conf.urls.patterns` function. Django will automatically
+.. deprecated:: 1.8
+
+    The ``prefix`` argument to ``i18n_patterns()`` has been deprecated and will
+    not be supported in Django 2.0. Simply pass a list of
+    :func:`django.conf.urls.url` instances instead.
+
+This function can be used in your root URLconf and Django will automatically
 prepend the current active language code to all url patterns defined within
 :func:`~django.conf.urls.i18n.i18n_patterns`. Example URL patterns::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
+    from django.conf.urls import include, url
     from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'sitemap.view', name='sitemap_xml'),
-    )
+    ]
 
-    news_patterns = patterns('',
+    news_patterns = [
         url(r'^$', 'news.views.index', name='index'),
         url(r'^category/(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$', 'news.views.category', name='category'),
         url(r'^(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$', 'news.views.details', name='detail'),
-    )
+    ]
 
-    urlpatterns += i18n_patterns('',
+    urlpatterns += i18n_patterns(
         url(r'^about/$', 'about.view', name='about'),
         url(r'^news/', include(news_patterns, namespace='news')),
     )
@@ -1144,21 +1151,21 @@ Translating URL patterns
 URL patterns can also be marked translatable using the
 :func:`~django.utils.translation.ugettext_lazy` function. Example::
 
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
+    from django.conf.urls import include, url
     from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
     from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
-    urlpatterns = patterns(''
+    urlpatterns = [
         url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'sitemap.view', name='sitemap_xml'),
-    )
+    ]
 
-    news_patterns = patterns(''
+    news_patterns = [
         url(r'^$', 'news.views.index', name='index'),
         url(_(r'^category/(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$'), 'news.views.category', name='category'),
         url(r'^(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$', 'news.views.details', name='detail'),
-    )
+    ]
 
-    urlpatterns += i18n_patterns('',
+    urlpatterns += i18n_patterns(
         url(_(r'^about/$'), 'about.view', name='about'),
         url(_(r'^news/'), include(news_patterns, namespace='news')),
     )
diff --git a/tests/admin_changelist/urls.py b/tests/admin_changelist/urls.py
index a5d927e20b..b73893b2ae 100644
--- a/tests/admin_changelist/urls.py
+++ b/tests/admin_changelist/urls.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
 
 from . import admin
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
+]
diff --git a/tests/admin_custom_urls/models.py b/tests/admin_custom_urls/models.py
index 121e03b860..51725d4253 100644
--- a/tests/admin_custom_urls/models.py
+++ b/tests/admin_custom_urls/models.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class ActionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
     def get_urls(self):
         # Add the URL of our custom 'add_view' view to the front of the URLs
         # list.  Remove the existing one(s) first
-        from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+        from django.conf.urls import url
 
         def wrap(view):
             def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ class ActionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
 
         view_name = '%s_%s_add' % info
 
-        return patterns('',
+        return [
             url(r'^!add/$', wrap(self.add_view), name=view_name),
-        ) + self.remove_url(view_name)
+        ] + self.remove_url(view_name)
 
 
 class Person(models.Model):
diff --git a/tests/admin_custom_urls/urls.py b/tests/admin_custom_urls/urls.py
index 5fe9ca89fb..1d14a09161 100644
--- a/tests/admin_custom_urls/urls.py
+++ b/tests/admin_custom_urls/urls.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
 from django.contrib import admin
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
+]
diff --git a/tests/admin_docs/urls.py b/tests/admin_docs/urls.py
index 48e7898d09..3fbfaff0c4 100644
--- a/tests/admin_docs/urls.py
+++ b/tests/admin_docs/urls.py
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-from django.conf.urls import include, patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
 from django.contrib import admin
 
 from . import views
 
-ns_patterns = patterns('',
+ns_patterns = [
     url(r'^xview/func/$', views.xview_dec(views.xview), name='func'),
-)
+]
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-    (r'^admindocs/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
-    (r'^', include(ns_patterns, namespace='test')),
-    (r'^xview/func/$', views.xview_dec(views.xview)),
-    (r'^xview/class/$', views.xview_dec(views.XViewClass.as_view())),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
+    url(r'^admindocs/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
+    url(r'^', include(ns_patterns, namespace='test')),
+    url(r'^xview/func/$', views.xview_dec(views.xview)),
+    url(r'^xview/class/$', views.xview_dec(views.XViewClass.as_view())),
+]
diff --git a/tests/admin_inlines/urls.py b/tests/admin_inlines/urls.py
index a5d927e20b..b73893b2ae 100644
--- a/tests/admin_inlines/urls.py
+++ b/tests/admin_inlines/urls.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
 
 from . import admin
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
+]
diff --git a/tests/admin_scripts/urls.py b/tests/admin_scripts/urls.py
index a45dc3e9a6..ab17990322 100644
--- a/tests/admin_scripts/urls.py
+++ b/tests/admin_scripts/urls.py
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 import os
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.utils._os import upath
 
 here = os.path.dirname(upath(__file__))
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^custom_templates/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {
-        'document_root': os.path.join(here, 'custom_templates'),
-    }),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^custom_templates/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {
+        'document_root': os.path.join(here, 'custom_templates')}),
+]
diff --git a/tests/admin_views/admin.py b/tests/admin_views/admin.py
index cd9ce2bf17..ba523265c2 100644
--- a/tests/admin_views/admin.py
+++ b/tests/admin_views/admin.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
 from django.core.files.storage import FileSystemStorage
 from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
 from django.core.servers.basehttp import FileWrapper
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.forms.models import BaseModelFormSet
 from django.http import HttpResponse, StreamingHttpResponse
 from django.contrib.admin import BooleanFieldListFilter
@@ -617,11 +617,11 @@ class ReportAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
 
     def get_urls(self):
         # Corner case: Don't call parent implementation
-        return patterns('',
+        return [
             url(r'^extra/$',
                 self.extra,
                 name='cable_extra'),
-        )
+        ]
 
 
 class CustomTemplateBooleanFieldListFilter(BooleanFieldListFilter):
diff --git a/tests/admin_views/customadmin.py b/tests/admin_views/customadmin.py
index 560b4409c2..906fb871db 100644
--- a/tests/admin_views/customadmin.py
+++ b/tests/admin_views/customadmin.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ A second, custom AdminSite -- see tests.CustomAdminSiteTests.
 """
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.contrib import admin
 from django.http import HttpResponse
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ class Admin2(admin.AdminSite):
         return super(Admin2, self).index(request, {'foo': '*bar*'})
 
     def get_urls(self):
-        return patterns('',
-            (r'^my_view/$', self.admin_view(self.my_view)),
-        ) + super(Admin2, self).get_urls()
+        return [
+            url(r'^my_view/$', self.admin_view(self.my_view)),
+        ] + super(Admin2, self).get_urls()
 
     def my_view(self, request):
         return HttpResponse("Django is a magical pony!")
diff --git a/tests/admin_views/urls.py b/tests/admin_views/urls.py
index d934173234..c0c59d34fc 100644
--- a/tests/admin_views/urls.py
+++ b/tests/admin_views/urls.py
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
 
 from . import views, customadmin, admin
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^test_admin/admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
-    (r'^test_admin/admin/secure-view/$', views.secure_view),
-    (r'^test_admin/admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-    (r'^test_admin/admin2/', include(customadmin.site.urls)),
-    (r'^test_admin/admin3/', include(admin.site.urls), dict(form_url='pony')),
-    (r'^test_admin/admin4/', include(customadmin.simple_site.urls)),
-    (r'^test_admin/admin5/', include(admin.site2.urls)),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^test_admin/admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
+    url(r'^test_admin/admin/secure-view/$', views.secure_view),
+    url(r'^test_admin/admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
+    url(r'^test_admin/admin2/', include(customadmin.site.urls)),
+    url(r'^test_admin/admin3/', include(admin.site.urls), dict(form_url='pony')),
+    url(r'^test_admin/admin4/', include(customadmin.simple_site.urls)),
+    url(r'^test_admin/admin5/', include(admin.site2.urls)),
+]
diff --git a/tests/admin_widgets/urls.py b/tests/admin_widgets/urls.py
index 94c841765f..3b3e9b1488 100644
--- a/tests/admin_widgets/urls.py
+++ b/tests/admin_widgets/urls.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
 
 from . import widgetadmin
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^', include(widgetadmin.site.urls)),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^', include(widgetadmin.site.urls)),
+]
diff --git a/tests/conditional_processing/urls.py b/tests/conditional_processing/urls.py
index 1ed7b1264a..0ae4a6868b 100644
--- a/tests/conditional_processing/urls.py
+++ b/tests/conditional_processing/urls.py
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from . import views
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    ('^condition/$', views.index),
-    ('^condition/last_modified/$', views.last_modified_view1),
-    ('^condition/last_modified2/$', views.last_modified_view2),
-    ('^condition/etag/$', views.etag_view1),
-    ('^condition/etag2/$', views.etag_view2),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url('^condition/$', views.index),
+    url('^condition/last_modified/$', views.last_modified_view1),
+    url('^condition/last_modified2/$', views.last_modified_view2),
+    url('^condition/etag/$', views.etag_view1),
+    url('^condition/etag2/$', views.etag_view2),
+]
diff --git a/tests/contenttypes_tests/urls.py b/tests/contenttypes_tests/urls.py
index 626b3ae8f7..bf038c93de 100644
--- a/tests/contenttypes_tests/urls.py
+++ b/tests/contenttypes_tests/urls.py
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
+from django.contrib.contenttypes import views
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^shortcut/(\d+)/(.*)/$', 'django.contrib.contenttypes.views.shortcut'),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^shortcut/(\d+)/(.*)/$', views.shortcut),
+]
diff --git a/tests/context_processors/urls.py b/tests/context_processors/urls.py
index 1b9f47c6b6..a7c0d1b4b0 100644
--- a/tests/context_processors/urls.py
+++ b/tests/context_processors/urls.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from . import views
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^request_attrs/$', views.request_processor),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^request_attrs/$', views.request_processor),
+]
diff --git a/tests/file_storage/urls.py b/tests/file_storage/urls.py
index aefd8549e1..7d50ef46b8 100644
--- a/tests/file_storage/urls.py
+++ b/tests/file_storage/urls.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.http import HttpResponse
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^$', lambda req: HttpResponse('example view')),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/file_uploads/urls.py b/tests/file_uploads/urls.py
index a6f446bf55..ae20a2b79f 100644
--- a/tests/file_uploads/urls.py
+++ b/tests/file_uploads/urls.py
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from . import views
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^upload/$', views.file_upload_view),
-    (r'^verify/$', views.file_upload_view_verify),
-    (r'^unicode_name/$', views.file_upload_unicode_name),
-    (r'^echo/$', views.file_upload_echo),
-    (r'^echo_content_type_extra/$', views.file_upload_content_type_extra),
-    (r'^echo_content/$', views.file_upload_echo_content),
-    (r'^quota/$', views.file_upload_quota),
-    (r'^quota/broken/$', views.file_upload_quota_broken),
-    (r'^getlist_count/$', views.file_upload_getlist_count),
-    (r'^upload_errors/$', views.file_upload_errors),
-    (r'^filename_case/$', views.file_upload_filename_case_view),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^upload/$', views.file_upload_view),
+    url(r'^verify/$', views.file_upload_view_verify),
+    url(r'^unicode_name/$', views.file_upload_unicode_name),
+    url(r'^echo/$', views.file_upload_echo),
+    url(r'^echo_content_type_extra/$', views.file_upload_content_type_extra),
+    url(r'^echo_content/$', views.file_upload_echo_content),
+    url(r'^quota/$', views.file_upload_quota),
+    url(r'^quota/broken/$', views.file_upload_quota_broken),
+    url(r'^getlist_count/$', views.file_upload_getlist_count),
+    url(r'^upload_errors/$', views.file_upload_errors),
+    url(r'^filename_case/$', views.file_upload_filename_case_view),
+]
diff --git a/tests/forms_tests/urls.py b/tests/forms_tests/urls.py
index 835e6507eb..bd5bc582a3 100644
--- a/tests/forms_tests/urls.py
+++ b/tests/forms_tests/urls.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from .views import ArticleFormView
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^model_form/(?P<pk>\d+)/$', ArticleFormView.as_view(), name="article_form"),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/generic_inline_admin/urls.py b/tests/generic_inline_admin/urls.py
index 8d68d6c922..bbabfc21a4 100644
--- a/tests/generic_inline_admin/urls.py
+++ b/tests/generic_inline_admin/urls.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
 
 from . import admin
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^generic_inline_admin/admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^generic_inline_admin/admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
+]
diff --git a/tests/generic_views/urls.py b/tests/generic_views/urls.py
index 1ecc0ec898..41417c6c49 100644
--- a/tests/generic_views/urls.py
+++ b/tests/generic_views/urls.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page
 from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 
@@ -6,26 +6,22 @@ from . import models
 from . import views
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    # base
-    #(r'^about/login-required/$',
-    #    views.DecoratedAboutView()),
-
+urlpatterns = [
     # TemplateView
-    (r'^template/no_template/$',
+    url(r'^template/no_template/$',
         TemplateView.as_view()),
-    (r'^template/simple/(?P<foo>\w+)/$',
+    url(r'^template/simple/(?P<foo>\w+)/$',
         TemplateView.as_view(template_name='generic_views/about.html')),
-    (r'^template/custom/(?P<foo>\w+)/$',
+    url(r'^template/custom/(?P<foo>\w+)/$',
         views.CustomTemplateView.as_view(template_name='generic_views/about.html')),
-    (r'^template/content_type/$',
+    url(r'^template/content_type/$',
         TemplateView.as_view(template_name='generic_views/robots.txt', content_type='text/plain')),
 
-    (r'^template/cached/(?P<foo>\w+)/$',
+    url(r'^template/cached/(?P<foo>\w+)/$',
         cache_page(2.0)(TemplateView.as_view(template_name='generic_views/about.html'))),
 
     # DetailView
-    (r'^detail/obj/$',
+    url(r'^detail/obj/$',
         views.ObjectDetail.as_view()),
     url(r'^detail/artist/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
         views.ArtistDetail.as_view(),
@@ -33,102 +29,102 @@ urlpatterns = patterns('',
     url(r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
         views.AuthorDetail.as_view(),
         name="author_detail"),
-    (r'^detail/author/bycustompk/(?P<foo>\d+)/$',
+    url(r'^detail/author/bycustompk/(?P<foo>\d+)/$',
         views.AuthorDetail.as_view(pk_url_kwarg='foo')),
-    (r'^detail/author/byslug/(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$',
+    url(r'^detail/author/byslug/(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$',
         views.AuthorDetail.as_view()),
-    (r'^detail/author/bycustomslug/(?P<foo>[\w-]+)/$',
+    url(r'^detail/author/bycustomslug/(?P<foo>[\w-]+)/$',
         views.AuthorDetail.as_view(slug_url_kwarg='foo')),
-    (r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/template_name_suffix/$',
+    url(r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/template_name_suffix/$',
         views.AuthorDetail.as_view(template_name_suffix='_view')),
-    (r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/template_name/$',
+    url(r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/template_name/$',
         views.AuthorDetail.as_view(template_name='generic_views/about.html')),
-    (r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/context_object_name/$',
+    url(r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/context_object_name/$',
         views.AuthorDetail.as_view(context_object_name='thingy')),
-    (r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/dupe_context_object_name/$',
+    url(r'^detail/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/dupe_context_object_name/$',
         views.AuthorDetail.as_view(context_object_name='object')),
-    (r'^detail/page/(?P<pk>\d+)/field/$',
+    url(r'^detail/page/(?P<pk>\d+)/field/$',
         views.PageDetail.as_view()),
-    (r'^detail/author/invalid/url/$',
+    url(r'^detail/author/invalid/url/$',
         views.AuthorDetail.as_view()),
-    (r'^detail/author/invalid/qs/$',
+    url(r'^detail/author/invalid/qs/$',
         views.AuthorDetail.as_view(queryset=None)),
-    (r'^detail/nonmodel/1/$',
+    url(r'^detail/nonmodel/1/$',
         views.NonModelDetail.as_view()),
-    (r'^detail/doesnotexist/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
+    url(r'^detail/doesnotexist/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
         views.ObjectDoesNotExistDetail.as_view()),
     # FormView
-    (r'^contact/$',
+    url(r'^contact/$',
         views.ContactView.as_view()),
 
     # Create/UpdateView
-    (r'^edit/artists/create/$',
+    url(r'^edit/artists/create/$',
         views.ArtistCreate.as_view()),
-    (r'^edit/artists/(?P<pk>\d+)/update/$',
+    url(r'^edit/artists/(?P<pk>\d+)/update/$',
         views.ArtistUpdate.as_view()),
 
-    (r'^edit/authors/create/naive/$',
+    url(r'^edit/authors/create/naive/$',
         views.NaiveAuthorCreate.as_view()),
-    (r'^edit/authors/create/redirect/$',
+    url(r'^edit/authors/create/redirect/$',
         views.NaiveAuthorCreate.as_view(success_url='/edit/authors/create/')),
-    (r'^edit/authors/create/interpolate_redirect/$',
+    url(r'^edit/authors/create/interpolate_redirect/$',
         views.NaiveAuthorCreate.as_view(success_url='/edit/author/%(id)d/update/')),
-    (r'^edit/authors/create/restricted/$',
+    url(r'^edit/authors/create/restricted/$',
         views.AuthorCreateRestricted.as_view()),
-    (r'^edit/authors/create/$',
+    url(r'^edit/authors/create/$',
         views.AuthorCreate.as_view()),
-    (r'^edit/authors/create/special/$',
+    url(r'^edit/authors/create/special/$',
         views.SpecializedAuthorCreate.as_view()),
 
-    (r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/update/naive/$',
+    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/update/naive/$',
         views.NaiveAuthorUpdate.as_view()),
-    (r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/update/redirect/$',
+    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/update/redirect/$',
         views.NaiveAuthorUpdate.as_view(success_url='/edit/authors/create/')),
-    (r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/update/interpolate_redirect/$',
+    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/update/interpolate_redirect/$',
         views.NaiveAuthorUpdate.as_view(success_url='/edit/author/%(id)d/update/')),
-    (r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/update/$',
+    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/update/$',
         views.AuthorUpdate.as_view()),
-    (r'^edit/author/update/$',
+    url(r'^edit/author/update/$',
         views.OneAuthorUpdate.as_view()),
-    (r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/update/special/$',
+    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/update/special/$',
         views.SpecializedAuthorUpdate.as_view()),
-    (r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/delete/naive/$',
+    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/delete/naive/$',
         views.NaiveAuthorDelete.as_view()),
-    (r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/delete/redirect/$',
+    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/delete/redirect/$',
         views.NaiveAuthorDelete.as_view(success_url='/edit/authors/create/')),
-    (r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/delete/interpolate_redirect/$',
+    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/delete/interpolate_redirect/$',
         views.NaiveAuthorDelete.as_view(success_url='/edit/authors/create/?deleted=%(id)s')),
-    (r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/delete/$',
+    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/delete/$',
         views.AuthorDelete.as_view()),
-    (r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/delete/special/$',
+    url(r'^edit/author/(?P<pk>\d+)/delete/special/$',
         views.SpecializedAuthorDelete.as_view()),
 
     # ArchiveIndexView
-    (r'^dates/books/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/$',
         views.BookArchive.as_view()),
-    (r'^dates/books/context_object_name/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/context_object_name/$',
         views.BookArchive.as_view(context_object_name='thingies')),
-    (r'^dates/books/allow_empty/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/allow_empty/$',
         views.BookArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
-    (r'^dates/books/template_name/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/template_name/$',
         views.BookArchive.as_view(template_name='generic_views/list.html')),
-    (r'^dates/books/template_name_suffix/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/template_name_suffix/$',
         views.BookArchive.as_view(template_name_suffix='_detail')),
-    (r'^dates/books/invalid/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/invalid/$',
         views.BookArchive.as_view(queryset=None)),
-    (r'^dates/books/paginated/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/paginated/$',
         views.BookArchive.as_view(paginate_by=10)),
-    (r'^dates/books/reverse/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/reverse/$',
         views.BookArchive.as_view(queryset=models.Book.objects.order_by('pubdate'))),
-    (r'^dates/books/by_month/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/by_month/$',
         views.BookArchive.as_view(date_list_period='month')),
-    (r'^dates/booksignings/$',
+    url(r'^dates/booksignings/$',
         views.BookSigningArchive.as_view()),
 
     # ListView
-    (r'^list/dict/$',
+    url(r'^list/dict/$',
         views.DictList.as_view()),
-    (r'^list/dict/paginated/$',
+    url(r'^list/dict/paginated/$',
         views.DictList.as_view(paginate_by=1)),
     url(r'^list/artists/$',
         views.ArtistList.as_view(),
@@ -136,130 +132,130 @@ urlpatterns = patterns('',
     url(r'^list/authors/$',
         views.AuthorList.as_view(),
         name="authors_list"),
-    (r'^list/authors/paginated/$',
+    url(r'^list/authors/paginated/$',
         views.AuthorList.as_view(paginate_by=30)),
-    (r'^list/authors/paginated/(?P<page>\d+)/$',
+    url(r'^list/authors/paginated/(?P<page>\d+)/$',
         views.AuthorList.as_view(paginate_by=30)),
-    (r'^list/authors/paginated-orphaned/$',
+    url(r'^list/authors/paginated-orphaned/$',
         views.AuthorList.as_view(paginate_by=30, paginate_orphans=2)),
-    (r'^list/authors/notempty/$',
+    url(r'^list/authors/notempty/$',
         views.AuthorList.as_view(allow_empty=False)),
-    (r'^list/authors/notempty/paginated/$',
+    url(r'^list/authors/notempty/paginated/$',
         views.AuthorList.as_view(allow_empty=False, paginate_by=2)),
-    (r'^list/authors/template_name/$',
+    url(r'^list/authors/template_name/$',
         views.AuthorList.as_view(template_name='generic_views/list.html')),
-    (r'^list/authors/template_name_suffix/$',
+    url(r'^list/authors/template_name_suffix/$',
         views.AuthorList.as_view(template_name_suffix='_objects')),
-    (r'^list/authors/context_object_name/$',
+    url(r'^list/authors/context_object_name/$',
         views.AuthorList.as_view(context_object_name='author_list')),
-    (r'^list/authors/dupe_context_object_name/$',
+    url(r'^list/authors/dupe_context_object_name/$',
         views.AuthorList.as_view(context_object_name='object_list')),
-    (r'^list/authors/invalid/$',
+    url(r'^list/authors/invalid/$',
         views.AuthorList.as_view(queryset=None)),
-    (r'^list/authors/paginated/custom_class/$',
+    url(r'^list/authors/paginated/custom_class/$',
         views.AuthorList.as_view(paginate_by=5, paginator_class=views.CustomPaginator)),
-    (r'^list/authors/paginated/custom_page_kwarg/$',
+    url(r'^list/authors/paginated/custom_page_kwarg/$',
         views.AuthorList.as_view(paginate_by=30, page_kwarg='pagina')),
-    (r'^list/authors/paginated/custom_constructor/$',
+    url(r'^list/authors/paginated/custom_constructor/$',
         views.AuthorListCustomPaginator.as_view()),
 
     # YearArchiveView
     # Mixing keyword and positional captures below is intentional; the views
     # ought to be able to accept either.
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/$',
         views.BookYearArchive.as_view()),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/make_object_list/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/make_object_list/$',
         views.BookYearArchive.as_view(make_object_list=True)),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/allow_empty/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/allow_empty/$',
         views.BookYearArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/allow_future/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/allow_future/$',
         views.BookYearArchive.as_view(allow_future=True)),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/paginated/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/paginated/$',
         views.BookYearArchive.as_view(make_object_list=True, paginate_by=30)),
-    (r'^dates/books/no_year/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/no_year/$',
         views.BookYearArchive.as_view()),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/reverse/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/reverse/$',
         views.BookYearArchive.as_view(queryset=models.Book.objects.order_by('pubdate'))),
-    (r'^dates/booksignings/(?P<year>\d{4})/$',
+    url(r'^dates/booksignings/(?P<year>\d{4})/$',
         views.BookSigningYearArchive.as_view()),
 
     # MonthArchiveView
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/$',
         views.BookMonthArchive.as_view()),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\d{1,2})/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\d{1,2})/$',
         views.BookMonthArchive.as_view(month_format='%m')),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/allow_empty/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/allow_empty/$',
         views.BookMonthArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/allow_future/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/allow_future/$',
         views.BookMonthArchive.as_view(allow_future=True)),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/paginated/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/paginated/$',
         views.BookMonthArchive.as_view(paginate_by=30)),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/no_month/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/no_month/$',
         views.BookMonthArchive.as_view()),
-    (r'^dates/booksignings/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/$',
+    url(r'^dates/booksignings/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/$',
         views.BookSigningMonthArchive.as_view()),
 
     # WeekArchiveView
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/week/(?P<week>\d{1,2})/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/week/(?P<week>\d{1,2})/$',
         views.BookWeekArchive.as_view()),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/week/(?P<week>\d{1,2})/allow_empty/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/week/(?P<week>\d{1,2})/allow_empty/$',
         views.BookWeekArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/week/(?P<week>\d{1,2})/allow_future/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/week/(?P<week>\d{1,2})/allow_future/$',
         views.BookWeekArchive.as_view(allow_future=True)),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/week/(?P<week>\d{1,2})/paginated/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/week/(?P<week>\d{1,2})/paginated/$',
         views.BookWeekArchive.as_view(paginate_by=30)),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/week/no_week/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/week/no_week/$',
         views.BookWeekArchive.as_view()),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/week/(?P<week>\d{1,2})/monday/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/week/(?P<week>\d{1,2})/monday/$',
         views.BookWeekArchive.as_view(week_format='%W')),
-    (r'^dates/booksignings/(?P<year>\d{4})/week/(?P<week>\d{1,2})/$',
+    url(r'^dates/booksignings/(?P<year>\d{4})/week/(?P<week>\d{1,2})/$',
         views.BookSigningWeekArchive.as_view()),
 
     # DayArchiveView
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/$',
         views.BookDayArchive.as_view()),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\d{1,2})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\d{1,2})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/$',
         views.BookDayArchive.as_view(month_format='%m')),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/allow_empty/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/allow_empty/$',
         views.BookDayArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/allow_future/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/allow_future/$',
         views.BookDayArchive.as_view(allow_future=True)),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/allow_empty_and_future/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/allow_empty_and_future/$',
         views.BookDayArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True, allow_future=True)),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/paginated/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/paginated/$',
         views.BookDayArchive.as_view(paginate_by=True)),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/no_day/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/no_day/$',
         views.BookDayArchive.as_view()),
-    (r'^dates/booksignings/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/$',
+    url(r'^dates/booksignings/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/$',
         views.BookSigningDayArchive.as_view()),
 
     # TodayArchiveView
-    (r'^dates/books/today/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/today/$',
         views.BookTodayArchive.as_view()),
-    (r'^dates/books/today/allow_empty/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/today/allow_empty/$',
         views.BookTodayArchive.as_view(allow_empty=True)),
-    (r'^dates/booksignings/today/$',
+    url(r'^dates/booksignings/today/$',
         views.BookSigningTodayArchive.as_view()),
 
     # DateDetailView
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
         views.BookDetail.as_view()),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\d{1,2})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\d{1,2})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
         views.BookDetail.as_view(month_format='%m')),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/(?P<pk>\d+)/allow_future/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/(?P<pk>\d+)/allow_future/$',
         views.BookDetail.as_view(allow_future=True)),
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/nopk/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/nopk/$',
         views.BookDetail.as_view()),
 
-    (r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/byslug/(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/byslug/(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$',
         views.BookDetail.as_view()),
 
-    (r'^dates/books/get_object_custom_queryset/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
+    url(r'^dates/books/get_object_custom_queryset/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
         views.BookDetailGetObjectCustomQueryset.as_view()),
 
-    (r'^dates/booksignings/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
+    url(r'^dates/booksignings/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
         views.BookSigningDetail.as_view()),
 
     # Useful for testing redirects
-    (r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login')
-)
+    url(r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login')
+]
diff --git a/tests/handlers/urls.py b/tests/handlers/urls.py
index eaf764b00b..dd8895aa1a 100644
--- a/tests/handlers/urls.py
+++ b/tests/handlers/urls.py
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from . import views
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^regular/$', views.regular),
     url(r'^streaming/$', views.streaming),
     url(r'^in_transaction/$', views.in_transaction),
     url(r'^not_in_transaction/$', views.not_in_transaction),
     url(r'^suspicious/$', views.suspicious),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/default.py b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/default.py
index ff52e26227..416c4e854f 100644
--- a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/default.py
+++ b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/default.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
 from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 from django.views.generic import TemplateView
@@ -6,14 +6,14 @@ from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 
 view = TemplateView.as_view(template_name='dummy.html')
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^not-prefixed/$', view, name='not-prefixed'),
     url(r'^not-prefixed-include/', include('i18n.patterns.urls.included')),
     url(_(r'^translated/$'), view, name='no-prefix-translated'),
     url(_(r'^translated/(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$'), view, name='no-prefix-translated-slug'),
-)
+]
 
-urlpatterns += i18n_patterns('',
+urlpatterns += i18n_patterns(
     url(r'^prefixed/$', view, name='prefixed'),
     url(r'^prefixed\.xml$', view, name='prefixed_xml'),
     url(_(r'^users/$'), view, name='users'),
diff --git a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/disabled.py b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/disabled.py
index 60fd222024..f5059dd852 100644
--- a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/disabled.py
+++ b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/disabled.py
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 
 view = TemplateView.as_view(template_name='dummy.html')
 
-urlpatterns = i18n_patterns('',
+urlpatterns = i18n_patterns(
     url(r'^prefixed/$', view, name='prefixed'),
 )
diff --git a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/included.py b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/included.py
index 3f3d1325dd..eb4631c087 100644
--- a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/included.py
+++ b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/included.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 
 
 view = TemplateView.as_view(template_name='dummy.html')
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^foo/$', view, name='not-prefixed-included-url'),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/namespace.py b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/namespace.py
index 3a2467b7b5..570a7572e6 100644
--- a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/namespace.py
+++ b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/namespace.py
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 
 
 view = TemplateView.as_view(template_name='dummy.html')
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(_(r'^register/$'), view, name='register'),
     url(_(r'^register-without-slash$'), view, name='register-without-slash'),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/path_unused.py b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/path_unused.py
index 1254d16c4e..cd17527bf0 100644
--- a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/path_unused.py
+++ b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/path_unused.py
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 from django.conf.urls import url
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
 from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 
 
 view = TemplateView.as_view(template_name='dummy.html')
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^nl/foo/', view, name='not-translated'),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/wrong.py b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/wrong.py
index deed258909..fe948e0563 100644
--- a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/wrong.py
+++ b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/wrong.py
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
 
-urlpatterns = i18n_patterns('',
+urlpatterns = i18n_patterns(
     url(_(r'^account/'), include('i18n.patterns.urls.wrong_namespace', namespace='account')),
 )
diff --git a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/wrong_namespace.py b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/wrong_namespace.py
index 2f7105d637..f3b55b69fe 100644
--- a/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/wrong_namespace.py
+++ b/tests/i18n/patterns/urls/wrong_namespace.py
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 
 view = TemplateView.as_view(template_name='dummy.html')
 
-urlpatterns = i18n_patterns('',
+urlpatterns = i18n_patterns(
     url(_(r'^register/$'), view, name='register'),
 )
diff --git a/tests/i18n/urls.py b/tests/i18n/urls.py
index c7d01897f5..d225bff453 100644
--- a/tests/i18n/urls.py
+++ b/tests/i18n/urls.py
@@ -1,10 +1,17 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
+import warnings
 
 from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
 from django.http import HttpResponse, StreamingHttpResponse
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
-urlpatterns = i18n_patterns('',
-    (r'^simple/$', lambda r: HttpResponse()),
-    (r'^streaming/$', lambda r: StreamingHttpResponse([_("Yes"), "/", _("No")])),
-)
+
+# test deprecated version of i18_patterns() function (with prefix). Remove it
+# and convert to list of urls() in Django 2.0
+with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True):
+    warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', module='django.conf.urls.18n')
+
+    urlpatterns = i18n_patterns('',
+        (r'^simple/$', lambda r: HttpResponse()),
+        (r'^streaming/$', lambda r: StreamingHttpResponse([_("Yes"), "/", _("No")])),
+    )
diff --git a/tests/logging_tests/urls.py b/tests/logging_tests/urls.py
index c738bd565c..50f86cdbb2 100644
--- a/tests/logging_tests/urls.py
+++ b/tests/logging_tests/urls.py
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from . import views
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^suspicious/$', views.suspicious),
     url(r'^suspicious_spec/$', views.suspicious_spec),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/middleware/cond_get_urls.py b/tests/middleware/cond_get_urls.py
index 1dadd0d31a..a100cfdafb 100644
--- a/tests/middleware/cond_get_urls.py
+++ b/tests/middleware/cond_get_urls.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.http import HttpResponse
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^$', lambda request: HttpResponse('root is here')),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^$', lambda request: HttpResponse('root is here')),
+]
diff --git a/tests/middleware/extra_urls.py b/tests/middleware/extra_urls.py
index c051296a74..3b1fb85604 100644
--- a/tests/middleware/extra_urls.py
+++ b/tests/middleware/extra_urls.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^customurlconf/noslash$', 'view'),
-    (r'^customurlconf/slash/$', 'view'),
-    (r'^customurlconf/needsquoting#/$', 'view'),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^customurlconf/noslash$', 'view'),
+    url(r'^customurlconf/slash/$', 'view'),
+    url(r'^customurlconf/needsquoting#/$', 'view'),
+]
diff --git a/tests/middleware/urls.py b/tests/middleware/urls.py
index 217e3ae034..c429bb90fe 100644
--- a/tests/middleware/urls.py
+++ b/tests/middleware/urls.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^noslash$', 'view'),
-    (r'^slash/$', 'view'),
-    (r'^needsquoting#/$', 'view'),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^noslash$', 'view'),
+    url(r'^slash/$', 'view'),
+    url(r'^needsquoting#/$', 'view'),
+]
diff --git a/tests/middleware_exceptions/urls.py b/tests/middleware_exceptions/urls.py
index fcef638553..6fde4fd942 100644
--- a/tests/middleware_exceptions/urls.py
+++ b/tests/middleware_exceptions/urls.py
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from . import views
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^middleware_exceptions/view/$', views.normal_view),
-    (r'^middleware_exceptions/not_found/$', views.not_found),
-    (r'^middleware_exceptions/error/$', views.server_error),
-    (r'^middleware_exceptions/null_view/$', views.null_view),
-    (r'^middleware_exceptions/permission_denied/$', views.permission_denied),
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^middleware_exceptions/view/$', views.normal_view),
+    url(r'^middleware_exceptions/not_found/$', views.not_found),
+    url(r'^middleware_exceptions/error/$', views.server_error),
+    url(r'^middleware_exceptions/null_view/$', views.null_view),
+    url(r'^middleware_exceptions/permission_denied/$', views.permission_denied),
 
-    (r'^middleware_exceptions/template_response/$', views.template_response),
-    (r'^middleware_exceptions/template_response_error/$', views.template_response_error),
-)
+    url(r'^middleware_exceptions/template_response/$', views.template_response),
+    url(r'^middleware_exceptions/template_response_error/$', views.template_response_error),
+]
diff --git a/tests/model_permalink/urls.py b/tests/model_permalink/urls.py
index 409fc222c8..cbe50288b8 100644
--- a/tests/model_permalink/urls.py
+++ b/tests/model_permalink/urls.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^guitarists/(\w{1,50})/$', 'unimplemented_view_placeholder', name='guitarist_detail'),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/proxy_models/urls.py b/tests/proxy_models/urls.py
index 644a34f556..6fcf1e055b 100644
--- a/tests/proxy_models/urls.py
+++ b/tests/proxy_models/urls.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
 
 from django.contrib import admin
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
+]
diff --git a/tests/resolve_url/urls.py b/tests/resolve_url/urls.py
index f03ac1a412..eb3720a503 100644
--- a/tests/resolve_url/urls.py
+++ b/tests/resolve_url/urls.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
+from django.contrib.auth import views
 
-
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^accounts/logout/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout')
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^accounts/logout/$', views.logout),
+]
diff --git a/tests/servers/urls.py b/tests/servers/urls.py
index 03393c30ec..002e604105 100644
--- a/tests/servers/urls.py
+++ b/tests/servers/urls.py
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from . import views
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^example_view/$', views.example_view),
     url(r'^model_view/$', views.model_view),
     url(r'^create_model_instance/$', views.create_model_instance),
     url(r'^environ_view/$', views.environ_view),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/staticfiles_tests/urls/default.py b/tests/staticfiles_tests/urls/default.py
index e50a9e2907..5931ebc3be 100644
--- a/tests/staticfiles_tests/urls/default.py
+++ b/tests/staticfiles_tests/urls/default.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
+from django.contrib.staticfiles import views
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.contrib.staticfiles.views.serve'),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', views.serve),
+]
diff --git a/tests/syndication_tests/urls.py b/tests/syndication_tests/urls.py
index 1b5d77f2e1..3e50c098b0 100644
--- a/tests/syndication_tests/urls.py
+++ b/tests/syndication_tests/urls.py
@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from . import feeds
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('django.contrib.syndication.views',
-    (r'^syndication/complex/(?P<foo>.*)/$', feeds.ComplexFeed()),
-    (r'^syndication/rss2/$', feeds.TestRss2Feed()),
-    (r'^syndication/rss2/guid_ispermalink_true/$',
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^syndication/complex/(?P<foo>.*)/$', feeds.ComplexFeed()),
+    url(r'^syndication/rss2/$', feeds.TestRss2Feed()),
+    url(r'^syndication/rss2/guid_ispermalink_true/$',
         feeds.TestRss2FeedWithGuidIsPermaLinkTrue()),
-    (r'^syndication/rss2/guid_ispermalink_false/$',
+    url(r'^syndication/rss2/guid_ispermalink_false/$',
         feeds.TestRss2FeedWithGuidIsPermaLinkFalse()),
-    (r'^syndication/rss091/$', feeds.TestRss091Feed()),
-    (r'^syndication/no_pubdate/$', feeds.TestNoPubdateFeed()),
-    (r'^syndication/atom/$', feeds.TestAtomFeed()),
-    (r'^syndication/latest/$', feeds.TestLatestFeed()),
-    (r'^syndication/custom/$', feeds.TestCustomFeed()),
-    (r'^syndication/naive-dates/$', feeds.NaiveDatesFeed()),
-    (r'^syndication/aware-dates/$', feeds.TZAwareDatesFeed()),
-    (r'^syndication/feedurl/$', feeds.TestFeedUrlFeed()),
-    (r'^syndication/articles/$', feeds.ArticlesFeed()),
-    (r'^syndication/template/$', feeds.TemplateFeed()),
-    (r'^syndication/template_context/$', feeds.TemplateContextFeed()),
-)
+    url(r'^syndication/rss091/$', feeds.TestRss091Feed()),
+    url(r'^syndication/no_pubdate/$', feeds.TestNoPubdateFeed()),
+    url(r'^syndication/atom/$', feeds.TestAtomFeed()),
+    url(r'^syndication/latest/$', feeds.TestLatestFeed()),
+    url(r'^syndication/custom/$', feeds.TestCustomFeed()),
+    url(r'^syndication/naive-dates/$', feeds.NaiveDatesFeed()),
+    url(r'^syndication/aware-dates/$', feeds.TZAwareDatesFeed()),
+    url(r'^syndication/feedurl/$', feeds.TestFeedUrlFeed()),
+    url(r'^syndication/articles/$', feeds.ArticlesFeed()),
+    url(r'^syndication/template/$', feeds.TemplateFeed()),
+    url(r'^syndication/template_context/$', feeds.TemplateContextFeed()),
+]
diff --git a/tests/template_tests/alternate_urls.py b/tests/template_tests/alternate_urls.py
index 3c6a4e62f9..9b05aa619b 100644
--- a/tests/template_tests/alternate_urls.py
+++ b/tests/template_tests/alternate_urls.py
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from . import views
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     # View returning a template response
-    (r'^template_response_view/$', views.template_response_view),
+    url(r'^template_response_view/$', views.template_response_view),
 
     # A view that can be hard to find...
     url(r'^snark/', views.snark, name='snark'),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/template_tests/urls.py b/tests/template_tests/urls.py
index f3720bbda7..2b7a313206 100644
--- a/tests/template_tests/urls.py
+++ b/tests/template_tests/urls.py
@@ -1,20 +1,19 @@
 # coding: utf-8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from . import views
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-
+urlpatterns = [
     # Test urls for testing reverse lookups
-    (r'^$', views.index),
-    (r'^client/([\d,]+)/$', views.client),
-    (r'^client/(?P<id>\d+)/(?P<action>[^/]+)/$', views.client_action),
-    (r'^client/(?P<client_id>\d+)/(?P<action>[^/]+)/$', views.client_action),
+    url(r'^$', views.index),
+    url(r'^client/([\d,]+)/$', views.client),
+    url(r'^client/(?P<id>\d+)/(?P<action>[^/]+)/$', views.client_action),
+    url(r'^client/(?P<client_id>\d+)/(?P<action>[^/]+)/$', views.client_action),
     url(r'^named-client/(\d+)/$', views.client2, name="named.client"),
 
     # Unicode strings are permitted everywhere.
     url(r'^Юникод/(\w+)/$', views.client2, name="метка_оператора"),
     url(r'^Юникод/(?P<tag>\S+)/$', 'template_tests.views.client2', name="метка_оператора_2"),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/test_client/urls.py b/tests/test_client/urls.py
index 83f6fede35..554c934fe7 100644
--- a/tests/test_client/urls.py
+++ b/tests/test_client/urls.py
@@ -1,37 +1,37 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.views.generic import RedirectView
 
 from . import views
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^get_view/$', views.get_view),
-    (r'^post_view/$', views.post_view),
-    (r'^header_view/$', views.view_with_header),
-    (r'^raw_post_view/$', views.raw_post_view),
-    (r'^redirect_view/$', views.redirect_view),
-    (r'^secure_view/$', views.view_with_secure),
-    (r'^permanent_redirect_view/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/get_view/')),
-    (r'^temporary_redirect_view/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/get_view/', permanent=False)),
-    (r'^http_redirect_view/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/secure_view/')),
-    (r'^https_redirect_view/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='https://testserver/secure_view/')),
-    (r'^double_redirect_view/$', views.double_redirect_view),
-    (r'^bad_view/$', views.bad_view),
-    (r'^form_view/$', views.form_view),
-    (r'^form_view_with_template/$', views.form_view_with_template),
-    (r'^formset_view/$', views.formset_view),
-    (r'^login_protected_view/$', views.login_protected_view),
-    (r'^login_protected_method_view/$', views.login_protected_method_view),
-    (r'^login_protected_view_custom_redirect/$', views.login_protected_view_changed_redirect),
-    (r'^permission_protected_view/$', views.permission_protected_view),
-    (r'^permission_protected_view_exception/$', views.permission_protected_view_exception),
-    (r'^permission_protected_method_view/$', views.permission_protected_method_view),
-    (r'^session_view/$', views.session_view),
-    (r'^broken_view/$', views.broken_view),
-    (r'^mail_sending_view/$', views.mail_sending_view),
-    (r'^mass_mail_sending_view/$', views.mass_mail_sending_view),
-    (r'^django_project_redirect/$', views.django_project_redirect),
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^get_view/$', views.get_view),
+    url(r'^post_view/$', views.post_view),
+    url(r'^header_view/$', views.view_with_header),
+    url(r'^raw_post_view/$', views.raw_post_view),
+    url(r'^redirect_view/$', views.redirect_view),
+    url(r'^secure_view/$', views.view_with_secure),
+    url(r'^permanent_redirect_view/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/get_view/')),
+    url(r'^temporary_redirect_view/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/get_view/', permanent=False)),
+    url(r'^http_redirect_view/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/secure_view/')),
+    url(r'^https_redirect_view/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='https://testserver/secure_view/')),
+    url(r'^double_redirect_view/$', views.double_redirect_view),
+    url(r'^bad_view/$', views.bad_view),
+    url(r'^form_view/$', views.form_view),
+    url(r'^form_view_with_template/$', views.form_view_with_template),
+    url(r'^formset_view/$', views.formset_view),
+    url(r'^login_protected_view/$', views.login_protected_view),
+    url(r'^login_protected_method_view/$', views.login_protected_method_view),
+    url(r'^login_protected_view_custom_redirect/$', views.login_protected_view_changed_redirect),
+    url(r'^permission_protected_view/$', views.permission_protected_view),
+    url(r'^permission_protected_view_exception/$', views.permission_protected_view_exception),
+    url(r'^permission_protected_method_view/$', views.permission_protected_method_view),
+    url(r'^session_view/$', views.session_view),
+    url(r'^broken_view/$', views.broken_view),
+    url(r'^mail_sending_view/$', views.mail_sending_view),
+    url(r'^mass_mail_sending_view/$', views.mass_mail_sending_view),
+    url(r'^django_project_redirect/$', views.django_project_redirect),
 
-    (r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login', {'template_name': 'login.html'}),
-    (r'^accounts/logout/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout'),
-)
+    url(r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login', {'template_name': 'login.html'}),
+    url(r'^accounts/logout/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout'),
+]
diff --git a/tests/test_client_regress/urls.py b/tests/test_client_regress/urls.py
index c789fed2e7..44bbebfcd8 100644
--- a/tests/test_client_regress/urls.py
+++ b/tests/test_client_regress/urls.py
@@ -1,40 +1,40 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
+from django.conf.urls import url, include
 from django.views.generic import RedirectView
 
 from . import views
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'', include('test_client.urls')),
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'', include('test_client.urls')),
 
-    (r'^no_template_view/$', views.no_template_view),
-    (r'^staff_only/$', views.staff_only_view),
-    (r'^get_view/$', views.get_view),
-    (r'^request_data/$', views.request_data),
-    (r'^request_data_extended/$', views.request_data, {'template': 'extended.html', 'data': 'bacon'}),
+    url(r'^no_template_view/$', views.no_template_view),
+    url(r'^staff_only/$', views.staff_only_view),
+    url(r'^get_view/$', views.get_view),
+    url(r'^request_data/$', views.request_data),
+    url(r'^request_data_extended/$', views.request_data, {'template': 'extended.html', 'data': 'bacon'}),
     url(r'^arg_view/(?P<name>.+)/$', views.view_with_argument, name='arg_view'),
     url(r'^nested_view/$', views.nested_view, name='nested_view'),
-    (r'^login_protected_redirect_view/$', views.login_protected_redirect_view),
-    (r'^redirects/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/redirects/further/')),
-    (r'^redirects/further/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/redirects/further/more/')),
-    (r'^redirects/further/more/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/no_template_view/')),
-    (r'^redirect_to_non_existent_view/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/non_existent_view/')),
-    (r'^redirect_to_non_existent_view2/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/redirect_to_non_existent_view/')),
-    (r'^redirect_to_self/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/redirect_to_self/')),
-    (r'^circular_redirect_1/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/circular_redirect_2/')),
-    (r'^circular_redirect_2/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/circular_redirect_3/')),
-    (r'^circular_redirect_3/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/circular_redirect_1/')),
-    (r'^redirect_other_host/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='https://otherserver:8443/no_template_view/')),
-    (r'^set_session/$', views.set_session_view),
-    (r'^check_session/$', views.check_session_view),
-    (r'^request_methods/$', views.request_methods_view),
-    (r'^check_unicode/$', views.return_unicode),
-    (r'^check_binary/$', views.return_undecodable_binary),
-    (r'^parse_unicode_json/$', views.return_json_file),
-    (r'^check_headers/$', views.check_headers),
-    (r'^check_headers_redirect/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/check_headers/')),
-    (r'^body/$', views.body),
-    (r'^read_all/$', views.read_all),
-    (r'^read_buffer/$', views.read_buffer),
-    (r'^request_context_view/$', views.request_context_view),
-)
+    url(r'^login_protected_redirect_view/$', views.login_protected_redirect_view),
+    url(r'^redirects/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/redirects/further/')),
+    url(r'^redirects/further/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/redirects/further/more/')),
+    url(r'^redirects/further/more/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/no_template_view/')),
+    url(r'^redirect_to_non_existent_view/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/non_existent_view/')),
+    url(r'^redirect_to_non_existent_view2/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/redirect_to_non_existent_view/')),
+    url(r'^redirect_to_self/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/redirect_to_self/')),
+    url(r'^circular_redirect_1/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/circular_redirect_2/')),
+    url(r'^circular_redirect_2/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/circular_redirect_3/')),
+    url(r'^circular_redirect_3/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/circular_redirect_1/')),
+    url(r'^redirect_other_host/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='https://otherserver:8443/no_template_view/')),
+    url(r'^set_session/$', views.set_session_view),
+    url(r'^check_session/$', views.check_session_view),
+    url(r'^request_methods/$', views.request_methods_view),
+    url(r'^check_unicode/$', views.return_unicode),
+    url(r'^check_binary/$', views.return_undecodable_binary),
+    url(r'^parse_unicode_json/$', views.return_json_file),
+    url(r'^check_headers/$', views.check_headers),
+    url(r'^check_headers_redirect/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/check_headers/')),
+    url(r'^body/$', views.body),
+    url(r'^read_all/$', views.read_all),
+    url(r'^read_buffer/$', views.read_buffer),
+    url(r'^request_context_view/$', views.request_context_view),
+]
diff --git a/tests/test_utils/tests.py b/tests/test_utils/tests.py
index d3c7aec1f3..f41c06e647 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils/tests.py
+++ b/tests/test_utils/tests.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import unittest
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
 from django.db import connection
 from django.forms import EmailField, IntegerField
@@ -628,11 +628,11 @@ def fake_view(request):
 
 
 class FirstUrls:
-    urlpatterns = patterns('', url(r'first/$', fake_view, name='first'))
+    urlpatterns = [url(r'first/$', fake_view, name='first')]
 
 
 class SecondUrls:
-    urlpatterns = patterns('', url(r'second/$', fake_view, name='second'))
+    urlpatterns = [url(r'second/$', fake_view, name='second')]
 
 
 class OverrideSettingsTests(TestCase):
diff --git a/tests/test_utils/urls.py b/tests/test_utils/urls.py
index c3f2ec4e4b..4aade3d572 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils/urls.py
+++ b/tests/test_utils/urls.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from . import views
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^test_utils/get_person/(\d+)/$', views.get_person),
-    (r'^test_utils/no_template_used/$', views.no_template_used),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^test_utils/get_person/(\d+)/$', views.get_person),
+    url(r'^test_utils/no_template_used/$', views.no_template_used),
+]
diff --git a/tests/timezones/urls.py b/tests/timezones/urls.py
index bb028d917a..1d1ec38f64 100644
--- a/tests/timezones/urls.py
+++ b/tests/timezones/urls.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
 from django.contrib import admin
 
 from . import admin as tz_admin  # NOQA: register tz_admin
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/erroneous_urls.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/erroneous_urls.py
index ac6b6f7cb3..213642008d 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/erroneous_urls.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/erroneous_urls.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     # View has erroneous import
     url(r'erroneous_inner/$', 'urlpatterns_reverse.views.erroneous_view'),
     # Module has erroneous import
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ urlpatterns = patterns('',
     url(r'missing_outer/$', 'urlpatterns_reverse.missing_module.missing_view'),
     # Regex contains an error (refs #6170)
     url(r'(regex_error/$', 'regressiontestes.urlpatterns_reverse.views.empty_view'),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/extra_urls.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/extra_urls.py
index 94e225fb46..4eb2f02130 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/extra_urls.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/extra_urls.py
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
 Some extra URL patterns that are included at the top level.
 """
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
+from django.conf.urls import url, include
 
 from .views import empty_view
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^e-places/(\d+)/$', empty_view, name='extra-places'),
     url(r'^e-people/(?P<name>\w+)/$', empty_view, name="extra-people"),
     url('', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_urls2')),
     url(r'^prefix/(?P<prefix>\w+)/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_urls2')),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_named_urls.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_named_urls.py
index 14d2525114..d8a6a16481 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_named_urls.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_named_urls.py
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
+from django.conf.urls import url, include
 
 from .views import empty_view
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^$', empty_view, name="named-url3"),
     url(r'^extra/(?P<extra>\w+)/$', empty_view, name="named-url4"),
     url(r'^(?P<one>\d+)|(?P<two>\d+)/$', empty_view),
-    (r'^included/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_named_urls2')),
-)
+    url(r'^included/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_named_urls2')),
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_named_urls2.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_named_urls2.py
index 897d9e7487..cb8c893b48 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_named_urls2.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_named_urls2.py
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from .views import empty_view
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^$', empty_view, name="named-url5"),
     url(r'^extra/(?P<extra>\w+)/$', empty_view, name="named-url6"),
     url(r'^(?P<one>\d+)|(?P<two>\d+)/$', empty_view),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_namespace_urls.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_namespace_urls.py
index aaa1a03687..1b28552ade 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_namespace_urls.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_namespace_urls.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import warnings
+
 from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
 
 from .namespace_urls import URLObject
@@ -6,18 +8,22 @@ from .views import view_class_instance
 
 testobj3 = URLObject('testapp', 'test-ns3')
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('urlpatterns_reverse.views',
-    url(r'^normal/$', 'empty_view', name='inc-normal-view'),
-    url(r'^normal/(?P<arg1>\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', 'empty_view', name='inc-normal-view'),
+# test deprecated patterns() function. convert to list of urls() in Django 2.0
+with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
+    warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', module='django.conf.urls')
 
-    url(r'^\+\\\$\*/$', 'empty_view', name='inc-special-view'),
+    urlpatterns = patterns('urlpatterns_reverse.views',
+        url(r'^normal/$', 'empty_view', name='inc-normal-view'),
+        url(r'^normal/(?P<arg1>\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', 'empty_view', name='inc-normal-view'),
 
-    url(r'^mixed_args/(\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', 'empty_view', name='inc-mixed-args'),
-    url(r'^no_kwargs/(\d+)/(\d+)/$', 'empty_view', name='inc-no-kwargs'),
+        url(r'^\+\\\$\*/$', 'empty_view', name='inc-special-view'),
 
-    url(r'^view_class/(?P<arg1>\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', view_class_instance, name='inc-view-class'),
+        url(r'^mixed_args/(\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', 'empty_view', name='inc-mixed-args'),
+        url(r'^no_kwargs/(\d+)/(\d+)/$', 'empty_view', name='inc-no-kwargs'),
 
-    (r'^test3/', include(testobj3.urls)),
-    (r'^ns-included3/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_urls', namespace='inc-ns3')),
-    (r'^ns-included4/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.namespace_urls', namespace='inc-ns4')),
-)
+        url(r'^view_class/(?P<arg1>\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', view_class_instance, name='inc-view-class'),
+
+        (r'^test3/', include(testobj3.urls)),
+        (r'^ns-included3/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_urls', namespace='inc-ns3')),
+        (r'^ns-included4/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.namespace_urls', namespace='inc-ns4')),
+    )
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_no_kwargs_urls.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_no_kwargs_urls.py
index e408487f9b..bed77f7a18 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_no_kwargs_urls.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_no_kwargs_urls.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from .views import empty_view
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^inner-no-kwargs/(\d+)/', empty_view, name="inner-no-kwargs")
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_urls.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_urls.py
index af6b6882e0..bbc8537820 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_urls.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_urls.py
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from .views import empty_view
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^$', empty_view, name="inner-nothing"),
     url(r'^extra/(?P<extra>\w+)/$', empty_view, name="inner-extra"),
     url(r'^(?P<one>\d+)|(?P<two>\d+)/$', empty_view, name="inner-disjunction"),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_urls2.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_urls2.py
index 9dcafc8535..ac8c770e7f 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_urls2.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/included_urls2.py
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ each name to resolve and Django must distinguish the possibilities based on the
 argument list.
 """
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from .views import empty_view
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^part/(?P<value>\w+)/$', empty_view, name="part"),
     url(r'^part2/(?:(?P<value>\w+)/)?$', empty_view, name="part2"),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/named_urls.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/named_urls.py
index d4d35bac33..a4de1e1b87 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/named_urls.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/named_urls.py
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
+from django.conf.urls import url, include
 
 from .views import empty_view
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^$', empty_view, name="named-url1"),
     url(r'^extra/(?P<extra>\w+)/$', empty_view, name="named-url2"),
     url(r'^(?P<one>\d+)|(?P<two>\d+)/$', empty_view),
-    (r'^included/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_named_urls')),
-)
+    url(r'^included/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_named_urls')),
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/namespace_urls.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/namespace_urls.py
index 014bc65990..cb4453fe57 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/namespace_urls.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/namespace_urls.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
+from django.conf.urls import url, include
 
-from .views import view_class_instance
+from . import views
 
 
 class URLObject(object):
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ class URLObject(object):
         self.namespace = namespace
 
     def urls(self):
-        return patterns('',
+        return ([
             url(r'^inner/$', 'empty_view', name='urlobject-view'),
             url(r'^inner/(?P<arg1>\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', 'empty_view', name='urlobject-view'),
             url(r'^inner/\+\\\$\*/$', 'empty_view', name='urlobject-special-view'),
-        ), self.app_name, self.namespace
+        ], self.app_name, self.namespace)
     urls = property(urls)
 
 testobj1 = URLObject('testapp', 'test-ns1')
@@ -23,35 +23,35 @@ default_testobj = URLObject('testapp', 'testapp')
 otherobj1 = URLObject('nodefault', 'other-ns1')
 otherobj2 = URLObject('nodefault', 'other-ns2')
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('urlpatterns_reverse.views',
-    url(r'^normal/$', 'empty_view', name='normal-view'),
-    url(r'^normal/(?P<arg1>\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', 'empty_view', name='normal-view'),
-    url(r'^resolver_match/$', 'pass_resolver_match_view', name='test-resolver-match'),
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^normal/$', views.empty_view, name='normal-view'),
+    url(r'^normal/(?P<arg1>\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', views.empty_view, name='normal-view'),
+    url(r'^resolver_match/$', views.pass_resolver_match_view, name='test-resolver-match'),
 
-    url(r'^\+\\\$\*/$', 'empty_view', name='special-view'),
+    url(r'^\+\\\$\*/$', views.empty_view, name='special-view'),
 
-    url(r'^mixed_args/(\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', 'empty_view', name='mixed-args'),
-    url(r'^no_kwargs/(\d+)/(\d+)/$', 'empty_view', name='no-kwargs'),
+    url(r'^mixed_args/(\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', views.empty_view, name='mixed-args'),
+    url(r'^no_kwargs/(\d+)/(\d+)/$', views.empty_view, name='no-kwargs'),
 
-    url(r'^view_class/(?P<arg1>\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', view_class_instance, name='view-class'),
+    url(r'^view_class/(?P<arg1>\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', views.view_class_instance, name='view-class'),
 
-    (r'^unnamed/normal/(?P<arg1>\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', 'empty_view'),
-    (r'^unnamed/view_class/(?P<arg1>\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', view_class_instance),
+    url(r'^unnamed/normal/(?P<arg1>\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', views.empty_view),
+    url(r'^unnamed/view_class/(?P<arg1>\d+)/(?P<arg2>\d+)/$', views.view_class_instance),
 
-    (r'^test1/', include(testobj1.urls)),
-    (r'^test2/', include(testobj2.urls)),
-    (r'^default/', include(default_testobj.urls)),
+    url(r'^test1/', include(testobj1.urls)),
+    url(r'^test2/', include(testobj2.urls)),
+    url(r'^default/', include(default_testobj.urls)),
 
-    (r'^other1/', include(otherobj1.urls)),
-    (r'^other[246]/', include(otherobj2.urls)),
+    url(r'^other1/', include(otherobj1.urls)),
+    url(r'^other[246]/', include(otherobj2.urls)),
 
-    (r'^ns-included[135]/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_namespace_urls', namespace='inc-ns1')),
-    (r'^ns-included2/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_namespace_urls', namespace='inc-ns2')),
+    url(r'^ns-included[135]/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_namespace_urls', namespace='inc-ns1')),
+    url(r'^ns-included2/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_namespace_urls', namespace='inc-ns2')),
 
-    (r'^included/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_namespace_urls')),
-    (r'^inc(?P<outer>\d+)/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_urls', namespace='inc-ns5')),
+    url(r'^included/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_namespace_urls')),
+    url(r'^inc(?P<outer>\d+)/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_urls', namespace='inc-ns5')),
 
-    (r'^ns-outer/(?P<outer>\d+)/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_namespace_urls', namespace='inc-outer')),
+    url(r'^ns-outer/(?P<outer>\d+)/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_namespace_urls', namespace='inc-outer')),
 
-    (r'^\+\\\$\*/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.namespace_urls', namespace='special')),
-)
+    url(r'^\+\\\$\*/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.namespace_urls', namespace='special')),
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/reverse_lazy_urls.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/reverse_lazy_urls.py
index 0ef0a1f313..57358f6254 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/reverse_lazy_urls.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/reverse_lazy_urls.py
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from .views import empty_view, LazyRedirectView, login_required_view
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^redirected_to/$', empty_view, name='named-lazy-url-redirected-to'),
     url(r'^login/$', empty_view, name='some-login-page'),
     url(r'^login_required_view/$', login_required_view),
     url(r'^redirect/$', LazyRedirectView.as_view()),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urlconf_inner.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urlconf_inner.py
index 6d5cd27b35..d55c4dc650 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urlconf_inner.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urlconf_inner.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.template import Template, Context
 from django.http import HttpResponse
 
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ def inner_view(request):
                        '{% url "inner" as inner_url %}inner:{{ inner_url }}').render(Context())
     return HttpResponse(content)
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^second_test/$', inner_view, name='inner'),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urlconf_outer.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urlconf_outer.py
index 20b9b09f98..36b6529efa 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urlconf_outer.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urlconf_outer.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
+from django.conf.urls import url, include
 
 from . import urlconf_inner
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^test/me/$', urlconf_inner.inner_view, name='outer'),
     url(r'^inner_urlconf/', include(urlconf_inner.__name__))
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls.py
index 923d0c7558..cafcb63888 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls.py
@@ -1,64 +1,70 @@
+import warnings
+
 from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
 
 from .views import empty_view, absolute_kwargs_view
 
 
-other_patterns = patterns('',
+other_patterns = [
     url(r'non_path_include/$', empty_view, name='non_path_include'),
-)
+]
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    url(r'^places/(\d+)/$', empty_view, name='places'),
-    url(r'^places?/$', empty_view, name="places?"),
-    url(r'^places+/$', empty_view, name="places+"),
-    url(r'^places*/$', empty_view, name="places*"),
-    url(r'^(?:places/)?$', empty_view, name="places2?"),
-    url(r'^(?:places/)+$', empty_view, name="places2+"),
-    url(r'^(?:places/)*$', empty_view, name="places2*"),
-    url(r'^places/(\d+|[a-z_]+)/', empty_view, name="places3"),
-    url(r'^places/(?P<id>\d+)/$', empty_view, name="places4"),
-    url(r'^people/(?P<name>\w+)/$', empty_view, name="people"),
-    url(r'^people/(?:name/)', empty_view, name="people2"),
-    url(r'^people/(?:name/(\w+)/)?', empty_view, name="people2a"),
-    url(r'^people/(?P<name>\w+)-(?P=name)/$', empty_view, name="people_backref"),
-    url(r'^optional/(?P<name>.*)/(?:.+/)?', empty_view, name="optional"),
-    url(r'^hardcoded/$', empty_view, name="hardcoded"),
-    url(r'^hardcoded/doc\.pdf$', empty_view, name="hardcoded2"),
-    url(r'^people/(?P<state>\w\w)/(?P<name>\w+)/$', empty_view, name="people3"),
-    url(r'^people/(?P<state>\w\w)/(?P<name>\d)/$', empty_view, name="people4"),
-    url(r'^people/((?P<state>\w\w)/test)?/(\w+)/$', empty_view, name="people6"),
-    url(r'^character_set/[abcdef0-9]/$', empty_view, name="range"),
-    url(r'^character_set/[\w]/$', empty_view, name="range2"),
-    url(r'^price/\$(\d+)/$', empty_view, name="price"),
-    url(r'^price/[$](\d+)/$', empty_view, name="price2"),
-    url(r'^price/[\$](\d+)/$', empty_view, name="price3"),
-    url(r'^product/(?P<product>\w+)\+\(\$(?P<price>\d+(\.\d+)?)\)/$', empty_view, name="product"),
-    url(r'^headlines/(?P<year>\d+)\.(?P<month>\d+)\.(?P<day>\d+)/$', empty_view, name="headlines"),
-    url(r'^windows_path/(?P<drive_name>[A-Z]):\\(?P<path>.+)/$', empty_view, name="windows"),
-    url(r'^special_chars/(?P<chars>.+)/$', empty_view, name="special"),
-    url(r'^(?P<name>.+)/\d+/$', empty_view, name="mixed"),
-    url(r'^repeats/a{1,2}/$', empty_view, name="repeats"),
-    url(r'^repeats/a{2,4}/$', empty_view, name="repeats2"),
-    url(r'^repeats/a{2}/$', empty_view, name="repeats3"),
-    url(r'^(?i)CaseInsensitive/(\w+)', empty_view, name="insensitive"),
-    url(r'^test/1/?', empty_view, name="test"),
-    url(r'^(?i)test/2/?$', empty_view, name="test2"),
-    url(r'^outer/(?P<outer>\d+)/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_urls')),
-    url(r'^outer-no-kwargs/(\d+)/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_no_kwargs_urls')),
-    url('', include('urlpatterns_reverse.extra_urls')),
+# test deprecated patterns() function. convert to list of urls() in Django 2.0
+with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True):
+    warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', module='django.conf.urls')
 
-    # This is non-reversible, but we shouldn't blow up when parsing it.
-    url(r'^(?:foo|bar)(\w+)/$', empty_view, name="disjunction"),
+    urlpatterns = patterns('',
+        url(r'^places/(\d+)/$', empty_view, name='places'),
+        url(r'^places?/$', empty_view, name="places?"),
+        url(r'^places+/$', empty_view, name="places+"),
+        url(r'^places*/$', empty_view, name="places*"),
+        url(r'^(?:places/)?$', empty_view, name="places2?"),
+        url(r'^(?:places/)+$', empty_view, name="places2+"),
+        url(r'^(?:places/)*$', empty_view, name="places2*"),
+        url(r'^places/(\d+|[a-z_]+)/', empty_view, name="places3"),
+        url(r'^places/(?P<id>\d+)/$', empty_view, name="places4"),
+        url(r'^people/(?P<name>\w+)/$', empty_view, name="people"),
+        url(r'^people/(?:name/)', empty_view, name="people2"),
+        url(r'^people/(?:name/(\w+)/)?', empty_view, name="people2a"),
+        url(r'^people/(?P<name>\w+)-(?P=name)/$', empty_view, name="people_backref"),
+        url(r'^optional/(?P<name>.*)/(?:.+/)?', empty_view, name="optional"),
+        url(r'^hardcoded/$', empty_view, name="hardcoded"),
+        url(r'^hardcoded/doc\.pdf$', empty_view, name="hardcoded2"),
+        url(r'^people/(?P<state>\w\w)/(?P<name>\w+)/$', empty_view, name="people3"),
+        url(r'^people/(?P<state>\w\w)/(?P<name>\d)/$', empty_view, name="people4"),
+        url(r'^people/((?P<state>\w\w)/test)?/(\w+)/$', empty_view, name="people6"),
+        url(r'^character_set/[abcdef0-9]/$', empty_view, name="range"),
+        url(r'^character_set/[\w]/$', empty_view, name="range2"),
+        url(r'^price/\$(\d+)/$', empty_view, name="price"),
+        url(r'^price/[$](\d+)/$', empty_view, name="price2"),
+        url(r'^price/[\$](\d+)/$', empty_view, name="price3"),
+        url(r'^product/(?P<product>\w+)\+\(\$(?P<price>\d+(\.\d+)?)\)/$', empty_view, name="product"),
+        url(r'^headlines/(?P<year>\d+)\.(?P<month>\d+)\.(?P<day>\d+)/$', empty_view, name="headlines"),
+        url(r'^windows_path/(?P<drive_name>[A-Z]):\\(?P<path>.+)/$', empty_view, name="windows"),
+        url(r'^special_chars/(?P<chars>.+)/$', empty_view, name="special"),
+        url(r'^(?P<name>.+)/\d+/$', empty_view, name="mixed"),
+        url(r'^repeats/a{1,2}/$', empty_view, name="repeats"),
+        url(r'^repeats/a{2,4}/$', empty_view, name="repeats2"),
+        url(r'^repeats/a{2}/$', empty_view, name="repeats3"),
+        url(r'^(?i)CaseInsensitive/(\w+)', empty_view, name="insensitive"),
+        url(r'^test/1/?', empty_view, name="test"),
+        url(r'^(?i)test/2/?$', empty_view, name="test2"),
+        url(r'^outer/(?P<outer>\d+)/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_urls')),
+        url(r'^outer-no-kwargs/(\d+)/', include('urlpatterns_reverse.included_no_kwargs_urls')),
+        url('', include('urlpatterns_reverse.extra_urls')),
 
-    # Regression views for #9038. See tests for more details
-    url(r'arg_view/$', 'kwargs_view'),
-    url(r'arg_view/(?P<arg1>\d+)/$', 'kwargs_view'),
-    url(r'absolute_arg_view/(?P<arg1>\d+)/$', absolute_kwargs_view),
-    url(r'absolute_arg_view/$', absolute_kwargs_view),
+        # This is non-reversible, but we shouldn't blow up when parsing it.
+        url(r'^(?:foo|bar)(\w+)/$', empty_view, name="disjunction"),
 
-    # Tests for #13154. Mixed syntax to test both ways of defining URLs.
-    url(r'defaults_view1/(?P<arg1>\d+)/', 'defaults_view', {'arg2': 1}, name='defaults'),
-    (r'defaults_view2/(?P<arg1>\d+)/', 'defaults_view', {'arg2': 2}, 'defaults'),
+        # Regression views for #9038. See tests for more details
+        url(r'arg_view/$', 'kwargs_view'),
+        url(r'arg_view/(?P<arg1>\d+)/$', 'kwargs_view'),
+        url(r'absolute_arg_view/(?P<arg1>\d+)/$', absolute_kwargs_view),
+        url(r'absolute_arg_view/$', absolute_kwargs_view),
 
-    url('^includes/', include(other_patterns)),
-)
+        # Tests for #13154. Mixed syntax to test both ways of defining URLs.
+        url(r'defaults_view1/(?P<arg1>\d+)/', 'defaults_view', {'arg2': 1}, name='defaults'),
+        (r'defaults_view2/(?P<arg1>\d+)/', 'defaults_view', {'arg2': 2}, 'defaults'),
+
+        url('^includes/', include(other_patterns)),
+    )
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls_error_handlers.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls_error_handlers.py
index 7146fdf43c..aee6bb91ae 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls_error_handlers.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls_error_handlers.py
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 # Used by the ErrorHandlerResolutionTests test case.
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
-
-urlpatterns = patterns('')
+urlpatterns = []
 
 handler400 = 'urlpatterns_reverse.views.empty_view'
 handler404 = 'urlpatterns_reverse.views.empty_view'
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls_error_handlers_callables.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls_error_handlers_callables.py
index 0900ec94ba..5fe8c728ff 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls_error_handlers_callables.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls_error_handlers_callables.py
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 # Used by the ErrorHandlerResolutionTests test case.
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
-
 from .views import empty_view
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('')
+urlpatterns = []
 
 handler400 = empty_view
 handler404 = empty_view
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls_without_full_import.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls_without_full_import.py
index c1dce5549c..5178a9cfe0 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls_without_full_import.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/urls_without_full_import.py
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 # A URLs file that doesn't use the default
 # from django.conf.urls import *
 # import pattern.
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
 from .views import empty_view, bad_view
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^test_view/$', empty_view, name="test_view"),
     url(r'^bad_view/$', bad_view, name="bad_view"),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/urls.py b/tests/urls.py
index 34e3afcb83..bf9e5dc0fb 100644
--- a/tests/urls.py
+++ b/tests/urls.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 should be added within the test folders, and use TestCase.urls to set them.
 This helps the tests remain isolated.
 """
-from django.conf.urls import patterns
 
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('')
+urlpatterns = []
diff --git a/tests/view_tests/default_urls.py b/tests/view_tests/default_urls.py
index 511689ccb1..1e202472f4 100644
--- a/tests/view_tests/default_urls.py
+++ b/tests/view_tests/default_urls.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
+from django.conf.urls import include, url
 
 from django.contrib import admin
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     # This is the same as in the default project template
     url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/view_tests/generic_urls.py b/tests/view_tests/generic_urls.py
index 4d6a2219ec..6d44468ce6 100644
--- a/tests/view_tests/generic_urls.py
+++ b/tests/view_tests/generic_urls.py
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # -*- coding:utf-8 -*-
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.views.generic import RedirectView
 
 from .models import Article, DateArticle
-
+from . import views
 
 date_based_info_dict = {
     'queryset': Article.objects.all(),
@@ -26,38 +26,38 @@ numeric_days_info_dict = dict(date_based_info_dict, day_format='%d')
 
 date_based_datefield_info_dict = dict(date_based_info_dict, queryset=DateArticle.objects.all())
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login', {'template_name': 'login.html'}),
-    (r'^accounts/logout/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout'),
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login', {'template_name': 'login.html'}),
+    url(r'^accounts/logout/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout'),
 
     # Special URLs for particular regression cases.
     url('^中文/$', 'view_tests.views.redirect'),
     url('^中文/target/$', 'view_tests.views.index_page'),
-)
+]
 
 # redirects, both temporary and permanent, with non-ASCII targets
-urlpatterns += patterns('',
-    ('^nonascii_redirect/$', RedirectView.as_view(
+urlpatterns += [
+    url('^nonascii_redirect/$', RedirectView.as_view(
         url='/中文/target/', permanent=False)),
-    ('^permanent_nonascii_redirect/$', RedirectView.as_view(
+    url('^permanent_nonascii_redirect/$', RedirectView.as_view(
         url='/中文/target/', permanent=True)),
-)
+]
 
-urlpatterns += patterns('view_tests.views',
-    (r'^shortcuts/render_to_response/$', 'render_to_response_view'),
-    (r'^shortcuts/render_to_response/request_context/$', 'render_to_response_view_with_request_context'),
-    (r'^shortcuts/render_to_response/content_type/$', 'render_to_response_view_with_content_type'),
-    (r'^shortcuts/render_to_response/dirs/$', 'render_to_response_view_with_dirs'),
-    (r'^shortcuts/render/$', 'render_view'),
-    (r'^shortcuts/render/base_context/$', 'render_view_with_base_context'),
-    (r'^shortcuts/render/content_type/$', 'render_view_with_content_type'),
-    (r'^shortcuts/render/status/$', 'render_view_with_status'),
-    (r'^shortcuts/render/current_app/$', 'render_view_with_current_app'),
-    (r'^shortcuts/render/dirs/$', 'render_with_dirs'),
-    (r'^shortcuts/render/current_app_conflict/$', 'render_view_with_current_app_conflict'),
-)
+urlpatterns += [
+    url(r'^shortcuts/render_to_response/$', views.render_to_response_view),
+    url(r'^shortcuts/render_to_response/request_context/$', views.render_to_response_view_with_request_context),
+    url(r'^shortcuts/render_to_response/content_type/$', views.render_to_response_view_with_content_type),
+    url(r'^shortcuts/render_to_response/dirs/$', views.render_to_response_view_with_dirs),
+    url(r'^shortcuts/render/$', views.render_view),
+    url(r'^shortcuts/render/base_context/$', views.render_view_with_base_context),
+    url(r'^shortcuts/render/content_type/$', views.render_view_with_content_type),
+    url(r'^shortcuts/render/status/$', views.render_view_with_status),
+    url(r'^shortcuts/render/current_app/$', views.render_view_with_current_app),
+    url(r'^shortcuts/render/dirs/$', views.render_with_dirs),
+    url(r'^shortcuts/render/current_app_conflict/$', views.render_view_with_current_app_conflict),
+]
 
 # json response
-urlpatterns += patterns('view_tests.views',
-    (r'^json/response/$', 'json_response_view'),
-)
+urlpatterns += [
+    url(r'^json/response/$', views.json_response_view),
+]
diff --git a/tests/view_tests/regression_21530_urls.py b/tests/view_tests/regression_21530_urls.py
index 14248d872b..7a91ddebd7 100644
--- a/tests/view_tests/regression_21530_urls.py
+++ b/tests/view_tests/regression_21530_urls.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
+from django.conf.urls import url
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
+urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^index/$', 'view_tests.views.index_page', name='index'),
-)
+]
diff --git a/tests/view_tests/urls.py b/tests/view_tests/urls.py
index edf1bc56db..cefab5af25 100644
--- a/tests/view_tests/urls.py
+++ b/tests/view_tests/urls.py
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 # coding: utf-8
 from os import path
 
-from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
+from django.conf.urls import url, include
 from django.utils._os import upath
+from django.views import defaults, i18n
 
 from . import views
 
@@ -41,38 +42,38 @@ js_info_dict_app5 = {
     'packages': ('view_tests.app5',),
 }
 
-urlpatterns = patterns('',
-    (r'^$', views.index_page),
+urlpatterns = [
+    url(r'^$', views.index_page),
 
     # Default views
-    (r'^non_existing_url/', 'django.views.defaults.page_not_found'),
-    (r'^server_error/', 'django.views.defaults.server_error'),
+    url(r'^non_existing_url/', defaults.page_not_found),
+    url(r'^server_error/', defaults.server_error),
 
     # a view that raises an exception for the debug view
-    (r'raises/$', views.raises),
+    url(r'raises/$', views.raises),
 
-    (r'raises400/$', views.raises400),
-    (r'raises403/$', views.raises403),
-    (r'raises404/$', views.raises404),
-    (r'raises500/$', views.raises500),
+    url(r'raises400/$', views.raises400),
+    url(r'raises403/$', views.raises403),
+    url(r'raises404/$', views.raises404),
+    url(r'raises500/$', views.raises500),
 
     # i18n views
-    (r'^i18n/', include('django.conf.urls.i18n')),
-    (r'^jsi18n/$', 'django.views.i18n.javascript_catalog', js_info_dict),
-    (r'^jsi18n/app5/$', 'django.views.i18n.javascript_catalog', js_info_dict_app5),
-    (r'^jsi18n_english_translation/$', 'django.views.i18n.javascript_catalog', js_info_dict_english_translation),
-    (r'^jsi18n_multi_packages1/$', 'django.views.i18n.javascript_catalog', js_info_dict_multi_packages1),
-    (r'^jsi18n_multi_packages2/$', 'django.views.i18n.javascript_catalog', js_info_dict_multi_packages2),
-    (r'^jsi18n_admin/$', 'django.views.i18n.javascript_catalog', js_info_dict_admin),
-    (r'^jsi18n_template/$', views.jsi18n),
+    url(r'^i18n/', include('django.conf.urls.i18n')),
+    url(r'^jsi18n/$', i18n.javascript_catalog, js_info_dict),
+    url(r'^jsi18n/app5/$', i18n.javascript_catalog, js_info_dict_app5),
+    url(r'^jsi18n_english_translation/$', i18n.javascript_catalog, js_info_dict_english_translation),
+    url(r'^jsi18n_multi_packages1/$', i18n.javascript_catalog, js_info_dict_multi_packages1),
+    url(r'^jsi18n_multi_packages2/$', i18n.javascript_catalog, js_info_dict_multi_packages2),
+    url(r'^jsi18n_admin/$', i18n.javascript_catalog, js_info_dict_admin),
+    url(r'^jsi18n_template/$', views.jsi18n),
 
     # Static views
-    (r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': media_dir}),
-)
+    url(r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': media_dir}),
+]
 
-urlpatterns += patterns('view_tests.views',
-    url(r'view_exception/(?P<n>\d+)/$', 'view_exception', name='view_exception'),
-    url(r'template_exception/(?P<n>\d+)/$', 'template_exception', name='template_exception'),
-    url(r'^raises_template_does_not_exist/(?P<path>.+)$', 'raises_template_does_not_exist', name='raises_template_does_not_exist'),
-    url(r'^render_no_template/$', 'render_no_template', name='render_no_template'),
-)
+urlpatterns += [
+    url(r'view_exception/(?P<n>\d+)/$', views.view_exception, name='view_exception'),
+    url(r'template_exception/(?P<n>\d+)/$', views.template_exception, name='template_exception'),
+    url(r'^raises_template_does_not_exist/(?P<path>.+)$', views.raises_template_does_not_exist, name='raises_template_does_not_exist'),
+    url(r'^render_no_template/$', views.render_no_template, name='render_no_template'),
+]
diff --git a/tests/wsgi/urls.py b/tests/wsgi/urls.py
index 563b7238af..3ed0d5e8a8 100644
--- a/tests/wsgi/urls.py
+++ b/tests/wsgi/urls.py
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
-from django.conf.urls import url, patterns
+from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.http import HttpResponse
 
 
 def helloworld(request):
     return HttpResponse("Hello World!")
 
-urlpatterns = patterns(
-    "",
-    url("^$", helloworld)
-)
+urlpatterns = [
+    url("^$", helloworld),
+]