Error in code example - Generic views (regular expression)

[infopams]

(at this page: ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/generic-views/)

This code example is nonfuctional:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.views.generic.simple import direct_to_template
from mysite.books.views import about_pages

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ('^about/$', direct_to_template, {
        'template': 'about.html'
    }),
    ('^about/(w+)/$', about_pages),
)

It should be like this:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.views.generic.simple import direct_to_template
from mysite.books.views import about_pages

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ('^about/$', direct_to_template, {
        'template': 'about.html'
    }),
    ('^about/(\w+)/$', about_pages),
)

In short: the token (w+) should be replaced for (\w+) in order to have de desired functionality

[Adrian Holovaty]

(In [12182]) Fixed #12161 -- Added escaping of a backslash in two generic-views.txt examples. Thanks, infopams

[Manuel Saelices]

I think second changed line is a raw string, and don't must to be escaped