Index: django/core/urlresolvers.py
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--- django/core/urlresolvers.py	(revision 6602)
+++ django/core/urlresolvers.py	(working copy)
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@
     """
     # TODO: Handle nested parenthesis in the following regex.
     result = re.sub(r'\(([^)]+)\)', MatchChecker(args, kwargs), regex.pattern)
-    return result.replace('^', '').replace('$', '')
+    # TODO: Handle other special characters.
+    return result.replace('^', '').replace('$', '').replace('\+', '+').replace('\.', '.')
 
 class MatchChecker(object):
     "Class used in reverse RegexURLPattern lookup."
