Fixed #22218 -- Deprecated django.conf.urls.patterns.

Thanks Carl Meyer for the suggestion and Alex Gaynor and Carl for reviews.

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::

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::
 

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::
 

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

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