$ in a regular expression means "match the end of the line." What this means is that the first one, ^polls/$, means "match any url that starts and ends with polls/". If you omit the $, it means "match any url that starts with polls/, but ends with anything". So in your second example, the first regexp will always match, and nothing will ever make it to the second one.
Regards, -scott On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 19:26 -0700, John M wrote: > Ok, so im gong through the turtorial and trying to adopt it to my own > project, and I see this in urlpatterns: > > (r`^polls/$'....), > (r'^polls/(\d+)/$'....) > > how does that differ from > > (r'^polls/'....), > (r'^polls/(\d+)/$'....) > > Note the $ is missing from the first line of the second example. > > When you don't have a $ in the polls/ setup, it doesn't scan down to > the other entries. > > Since I'm so new to python and web stuff, was wondering if anyone could > explain this. > > Sorry for such a noob question. > > Thanks > > John > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
