Question

In my Django application, I have a URL I would like to match which looks a little like this:

/mydjangoapp/?parameter1=hello&parameter2=world

The problem here is the ‘?’ character being a reserved regex character.

I have tried a number of ways to match this… This was my first attempt:

(r'^pbanalytics/log/\?parameter1=(?P<parameter1>[\w0-9-]+)&parameter2=(?P<parameter2>[\w0-9-]+), 'mydjangoapp.myFunction')

This was my second attempt:

(r'^pbanalytics/log/\\?parameter1=(?P<parameter1>[\w0-9-]+)&parameter2=(?P<parameter2>[\w0-9-]+), 'mydjangoapp.myFunction')

but still no luck!

Does anyone know how I might match a ‘?’ exactly in a Django URL?

Answer 1

Don’t. You shouldn’t match query string with URL Dispatcher.
You can access all values using request.GET dictionary.

urls

(r'^pbanalytics/log/$', 'mydjangoapp.myFunction')

function

def myFunction(request) 
  param1 = request.GET.get('param1')