Question

Learning django & python.

Just set up a new site after doing the tutorial. Now for arguments sake say I want to add a bunch of About us, FAQ basic html pages with very limited dynamic elements do you go ahead and write a new line in my urls.py file for each page? or is their some neat way to say map all * *.html to the relevant .html file directly?

In general even if it does require a view will I have to write a new line in the url.py file for every page?

Answer 1

As long as there is some uniquely identifying section in the URL, you will not need to create an entry in urls.py for each direct-template url.

For example, you could say that all urls ending in “.html” are referencing a direct file from the templates.

urlpatterns = patterns('django.views.generic.simple',
    (r'(.+\.html)$', 'direct_to_template'),
    # ...
)

Take a look at http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/generic-views/#django-views-generic-simple-direct-to-template for details.