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Python Django Basics What a View! What Are URLs?

Nursultan Bolatbayev
Nursultan Bolatbayev
16,774 Points
Posted by Nursultan Bolatbayev
Nursultan Bolatbayev
16,774 Points

Where we should include url for views?

When we create view, we have to include this view in url file. But do we need to create new url file under app folder and that new url file will be included in root urls.py file under project folder or we can include it in existing urls.py file under project folder straightforward ? Which one is the best practice?

2 Answers

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

It depends on the context of the URL. If it's a view that's specific to an app (most views are), then, yes, put it into the urls.py in your app. If it's something more site-wide, like maybe an About page or something, it's fine to put it into the project's urls.py.

Julian Garcia
Julian Garcia
18,380 Points
Julian Garcia
Julian Garcia
18,380 Points

Hi as far as know, the most common is to create a urls.py in applications folder and include that file in the projects urls.py

project
----app_name
--------urls.py
----project_folder
--------urls.py

in project`s urls.py:

urlpattern = [
      url(r'^app_name/', include(app_name.urls)),
      ....
]

That is what I use in my projects.

Nursultan Bolatbayev
Nursultan Bolatbayev
16,774 Points
Nursultan Bolatbayev
Nursultan Bolatbayev
16,774 Points

Yes, this is what I saw in another source too. But in the video Kenneth Love includes it straightforward into urls.py file under project folder. And what is difference doing in that way? Does it affect anything?