From f6824840a2797ee70f5de559e27eee9b7b2207af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabriel Hurley Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 10:06:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #14627 -- Made Tutorial 3 more explicit regarding the transformations the URLconf undergoes in the final two sections, and gave an example of concatenating two patterns() in the process. Thanks to filmer for the report. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@14472 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/intro/tutorial03.txt | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt b/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt index 5b2bf0ccec..8f6061a14e 100644 --- a/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt +++ b/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt @@ -454,6 +454,27 @@ first argument to :func:`~django.conf.urls.defaults.patterns`, like so:: This is functionally identical to the previous formatting. It's just a bit tidier. +Since you generally don't want the prefix for one app to be applied to every +callback in your URLconf, you can concatenate multiple +:func:`~django.conf.urls.defaults.patterns`. Your full ``mysite/urls.py`` might +now look like this:: + + from django.conf.urls.defaults import * + + from django.contrib import admin + admin.autodiscover() + + urlpatterns = patterns('polls.views', + (r'^polls/$', 'index'), + (r'^polls/(?P\d+)/$', 'detail'), + (r'^polls/(?P\d+)/results/$', 'results'), + (r'^polls/(?P\d+)/vote/$', 'vote'), + ) + + urlpatterns += patterns('', + (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), + ) + Decoupling the URLconfs ======================= @@ -472,18 +493,20 @@ URLs within the app directory. Copy the file ``mysite/urls.py`` to ``polls/urls.py``. Then, change ``mysite/urls.py`` to remove the poll-specific URLs and insert an -:func:`~django.conf.urls.defaults.include`:: +:func:`~django.conf.urls.defaults.include`, leaving you with:: # This also imports the include function from django.conf.urls.defaults import * - - # ... + + from django.contrib import admin + admin.autodiscover() + urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')), - # ... + (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), ) -:func:`~django.conf.urls.defaults.include`, simply, references another URLconf. +:func:`~django.conf.urls.defaults.include` simply references another URLconf. Note that the regular expression doesn't have a ``$`` (end-of-string match character) but has the trailing slash. Whenever Django encounters :func:`~django.conf.urls.defaults.include`, it chops off whatever part of the