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Posted by Simon Amz
Simon Amz
4,606 Points

Is there an order for the declaration of URLs, in urls.py ?

Hi,

In the code below, is there any recommended order for the declaration of urls?

urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.hello_world, name = 'home'),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('courses/', include('courses.urls', namespace='courses')),
    path('suggest', views.suggestion_view, name = 'suggestion'),
]

Thanks for the response

2 Answers

Jeff Muday
MOD
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,732 Points
Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,732 Points

Since the routes are evaluated in order, order is important. It is possible to insert a route at the beginning of the list that might interfere (or prematurely "intercept") a route that you meant to be interpreted in a different way. It is very important when you are using regular expressions, to terminate those with a '$' character.

Django 2.0 uses simpler syntax than the 1.10 (long term support release) https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/releases/2.0/

Some people favor the "alphabetized" convention you are showing in your example code.

Simon Amz
Simon Amz
4,606 Points
Simon Amz
Simon Amz
4,606 Points

Thanks Jeff!