How common are "heavily nested apps"? Is there anyone else reading this who would find this useful?
On Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 3:40:14 AM UTC-5, lamby wrote: > > This just made me realize that the whole problem can already be fixed from >> the user's perspective by importing the module instead of using string >> based imports >> > > > Not entirely convinced. Firstly it's extra stuff you have to explicitly > import which seems a style regression from the "oh just use these included > urls" that you get with the string-based import. > > Secondly, whilst it might look fine when you are doing it once, for > example: > > from django.conf.urls import url, include > > from . import views > from .foo import urls > > urlpatterns = ( > url(r'', include(urls, namespace='foo')), > > url(r'^$', views.landing, name='landing'), > ) > > .. but the import dance get a bit nasty when you have multiple ones - you > have to alias each import: > > from django.conf.urls import url, include > > from . import views > from .foo_app import urls as foo_urls > from .bar_app import urls as bar_urls > # etc. > > urlpatterns = ( > url(r'', include(foo_urls, namespace='foo')), > url(r'', include(bar_urls, namespace='bar')), > > url(r'^$', views.landing, name='landing'), > ) > > This isn't an readabiliy improvement over using the string urls IMHO. > > Now, if only we could do the following: > > from . import views, foo_app, bar_app > > urlpatterns = ( > url(r'', include(foo_app.urls), namespace='foo')), > url(r'', include(bar_app.urls), namespace='bar')), > > url(r'^$', views.landing, name='landing'), > ) > > > /lamby > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/7230c9c7-daaa-48b4-bfc3-f3c398a3f32b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
