Question

I have my URL defined as follows:

(r'^article/edit/(.*)/$', 'mysite.views.edit_article')

And the function defined as:

def edit_article(request, article_id):

However, it seems that any request to this page results in the wrong value being passed in for article_id. If I redefine my URL as

(r'^article/(.*)/$', 'mysite.views.edit_article')

Minus the “edit/” it seems to work. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Answer 1

Try this:

url (r'^article/edit/(?P<article_id>\d+)$', 'mysite.views.edit_article'),

Take a look at the Named Groups in the Django documentation