Question

I’m just curious if I’m doing this right.

I’m coding a private section of a website and wrote a login view which throws up a login window. I want to reuse this view for several urls which all go to a different views once access is granted. It doesn’t appear that you can pass arguments in the statements in urls.py, so I gave the login view an extra argument redirect

def login(request, redirect):
    code to read the login form and parse the POST input
    if POST and loginSuccessful:
        return redirect(request)
    else:
        return render_to_response('login.html', context)

…and made specific urls each activate a different one-liner such as login_to_admin which simply returns the login view with a redirect argument.

def login_to_admin(request):
    return login(request, admin)

def login_to_beta(beta):
    return login(request, beta)

Everything works, I’m just wondering if this is the proper way to do this.

Answer 1

It doesn’t appear that you can pass arguments in the statements in
urls.py

You can, actually.

The third item in the url conf can be a dictionary of kwargs which will be passed your view function.

(r'^my_url/$', 'login', {'redirect': admin}),
(r'^my_other_url/$', 'login', {'redirect': beta}),