The regex you are using will only match a SINGLE letter or number, followed by a dash, and then the nid.
I'm betting it will work if you have a url like a-2355.html. Check out this SO post, it's pretty much identical to what you are looking for: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2525327/regex-for-a-za-z0-9-with-dashes-allowed-in-between-but-not-at-the-start-or-e -James On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Aswani Kumar <aswin.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > my url pattern > > [a-zA-Z0-9]-(?P<nid>\d+).html > > urls will be like > > news-in-finland-yesterday-festival-3456.html > > i want 3456 which is news id. > > the regex is correct but not working if i keep it in urls. > url('^[a-zA-Z0-9]-(?P<nid>\d+).html$', 'tempa'), > > please help... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
