Question

I’m trying to match a Django URL bit that can contain:

_, %, &, +, 0-9, a-z, A-Z, (space)

How can I do it so it is picked up by Django’s URL matcher, in form of a parameter?

(r'^(?P<chararg>\w+)/IT_NEEDS_TO_BE_HERE/(?P<intarg>\d+)', 'dest')

Answer 1

I played a bit and got this – [\w\+%_& ]+.

So (r'^(?P<chararg>\w+)/IT_NEEDS_TO_BE_HERE/(?P<intarg>\d+)', 'dest') would become

(r'^(?P<chararg>\w+)/(?P<arg>[\w\+%_& ]+)/(?P<intarg>\d+)', 'dest')

\w matches any word characters and digits.
\+ mathces +

EDIT: \d is not necessary.