I do not know how I missed that. I did read the documentation, but
obviously not very thoroughly.
Thank you very much for the help. I shall be more careful in the future.
On Sunday, January 20, 2013 4:40:46 AM UTC+11, Daniel Roseman wrote:
>
> On Saturday, 19 January 2013 13:15:42 UTC, robzyb wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> I have the following in my project's urls.py (watch_detail is a
>> dictionary with some parameters):
>>
>> urlpatterns = patterns('',
>>> url(r'^watches/(?P<object_id>\d+)/$', list_detail.object_detail,
>>> watch_detail, name='watch_detail'),
>>> )
>>
>>
>> However, the following line in a template returns an error:
>>
>> <li><a href ="{% url 'watch_detail' 1 %}">A link</a></li>
>>
>>
>> The error is this:
>>
>> NoReverseMatch at /watches/
>>
>> Reverse for ''watch_detail'' with arguments '(1,)' and keyword arguments
>>> '{}' not found.
>>
>>
>> I really would have expected that template code to work. Because the
>> following works in "manage.py shell":
>>
>> >>> from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
>>> >>> reverse("watch_detail", args=(1,))
>>> '/watches/1/'
>>> >>>
>>
>>
>> I've done a whole lot of Google'ing, but I can't seem to figure out why
>> it works in the shell, but doesn't work in the template.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>
> Look closely at the error message. There are *two* single quotes around
> watch_detail. That's because you're (probably) using the current release,
> 1.4, rather than the development version, where the syntax is not to use
> quotes around the view name in the url tag:
>
> {% url watch_detail 1 %}
>
> Note this is fully explained in both the 1.4 and dev documentation:
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/templates/builtins/#url
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/#url
> --
> DR.
>
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