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Dennis Mwangi
6,835 PointsHelp in writing django urls using the url() function and regex matching
As in this project
from django.conf.urls import url, include
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', views.WelcomeView.as_view()),
url(r'name/' views.NameView.as_view())
]
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views.generic import View, TemplateView
class WelcomeView(View):
def get(self, request):
return HttpResponse("Treehouse!")
class NameView(TemplateView):
template_name = 'name.html'
1 Answer
Dennis Mwangi
6,835 PointsHi carlosanroman I corrected the url to read " url(r'^name/$' views.NameView.as_view()) " but i still get an error for this practice exercise
csr13
33,293 PointsIf this is exacly what you typed:" url(r'^name/$' views.NameView.as_view()) " then you might need a comma after the r'^name/$' and before: views.NameView.as_view())
like this: url(r'^name/$', views.NameView.as_view())
csr13
33,293 Pointscsr13
33,293 PointsHmm your regex seems like its missing something that the one above has.
Are you sure you are matching the beginning ^ and the end $ ?
Catch my drift?
Tip:
However, if you were to be using the newest version of Django, you could be using the function path() instead of url(). .The function path() is easier, because you can just do: path('name/', .... ) instead of: url(r'name/$', ....). Nevertheless, for other types of views you would still need to use regexes with the path() function