id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
4103	"Add ""reverse"" to url_dispatch documentation for named url patterns"	absoludity@…	Jacob	"Just a small addition to the documentation for accessing named URL patterns at:

http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/url_dispatch/#naming-url-patterns

See email exchange between myself and Malcolm below...

On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 01:47 -0700, Michael wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is obvious, but the documentation at:
>
> http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/url_dispatch/#naming-url-patterns
>
> doesn't mention how you can use your named URL patters to redirect
> from one view to another. It only shows how you can get the url for a
> view from within a template.
>
> Anyways, turns out to be pretty simple (found it in the source
> django_src/django/template/defaulttags.py):
>
> from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
> return HttpResponseRedirect( reverse( 'your-url-name' ) )
>
> Have I missed something and this was documented else where? Otherwise
> I'll raise a ticket to update the above documentation for named url
> patterns...

We haven't documented reverse() anywhere, as far as I know. So worth
filing a ticket.

Thanks,
Malcolm"		closed	Documentation	dev		fixed	docs, url_dispatch		Accepted	1	1	0	0	0	0