URL tag should accept variable, a quoted literal

[yary h <not.com@…>]

I'm building up menus in django, and wanted a construct like this:
[[[
{% for item in menu %}
<a href="{% url item.view%}">{{item.label}}</a>
]]]
but that doesn't work, because there's no view "item.view"

That looks like a shortcoming/inconsistancy with the syntax of the URL tag. With most tags, an unquoted item gets looked up, and a quoted item is used as-is. Here, there's no way to look up the first argument to URL.

Suggested solution: require quotes for a literal (eg [{% url 'myapp.views.summarize_widgets' %}], and allow view names to be passed with the usual django syntax (eg [{% url item.some_view %}])

[Chris Beaven]

+1 from me.

[Chris Beaven]

Dupe of #3796 (has more discussion)

[yary h <not.com@…>]

Typo- this is a duplicate of #3769 (not 3796)