Keyword arguments make the resolver drop positional arguments

[dusk@…]

Given the URL configuration

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *

def func(request): pass

urlpatterns = patterns('',
        (r'^(\d+)/(?P<kwarg>\d+)/$', func),
)

The following occurs:

>>> import django.core.urlresolvers
>>> django.core.urlresolvers.resolve('/123/456/')
(<function func2 at 0x133ec30>, (), {'kwarg': '456'})

Note that the positional argument '123' is lost, causing a regression I observed in my patch for #4915.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

This is intended behaviour. See ​the documentation. I guess the main reason is that mixing of positional and keyword arguments can lead to ambiguities for many people and cases (if you interleave positional and keyword arg), so we ask people to pick one or the other.