Opened 19 years ago

Closed 19 years ago

Last modified 18 years ago

#878 closed defect (fixed)

URLconf regexp captures should be passed as *args

Reported by: aaronsw Owned by: Adrian Holovaty
Component: Core (Other) Version:
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Currently you have to write (?P<foo>) to get a capture out of a URL regular expression and into your function. Since this seems to be what you almost always want to do, why not just treat it like a normal regular expression and pass on every capture that doesn't start with ?:

Change History (4)

comment:1 by hugo, 19 years ago

url patterns aren't necessarily in the same order as function parameters. So *args is rather useless, as it would be a fixed, predefined order of elements in the url.

comment:2 by hugo, 19 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

Additioinally I think stuff like this should be just asked in the django-users list - this is more a "why is it that way" question than an actual "defect". It might be that because of a discussion on the list this will become an enhancement or defect - but for now it's just an enquiry and that's best done in either the IRC channel or the mailing lists.

comment:3 by Adrian Holovaty, 19 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: closedreopened

This is an intriguing idea.

comment:4 by Adrian Holovaty, 19 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: reopenedclosed

(In [1470]) Fixed #878 -- URLconf regex captures no longer have to be named groups. Old URLconfs (with named groups) still work. This is backwards-incompatible if you've defined custom middleware with a process_view function. See http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/BackwardsIncompatibleChanges

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