I understand it now Tom, thanks to you. I didn't quite get the "include" statement and what it did until you mentioned it, and a little help from the django book. . .Again, THANKS for taking the time to help, it's greatly appreciated!
Chris On Monday, September 9, 2013 10:57:51 PM UTC-4, Thomas wrote: > > On 9/9/13 5:40 PM, Chris Kavanagh wrote: > > This is just a tutorial I'm going through Tom. I'm not trying to write > anything, just trying to understand this part. And I apologize for making > my question(s) confusing, I'm not exactly sure how to ask it. > > Let's back up for a second. I'm not trying to match anything, I was > telling you what I already had in my files (from the tutorial). What I do > not understand is why the "/articles/" part of the url needs be included > when I want to go to my "/create/" view? In other words, why does the url > need to be "http://127.0.0.1:8000/articles/create"; INSTEAD OF " > http://127.0.0.1:8000/create"; ? Am I making sense, lol? > > I have "url(r'^create/$', 'article.views.create')" in my urlconf, so why > must I include "/article/" when I want to go to " > http://127.0.0.1:8000/create";? You said "All of your "urlconf" paths will > need to have "/articles" in the path to be found". Why? That is my > question? I'm obviously not understanding something that I should already > know. I get that I also have "(r'^articles/', include('article.urls'))" in > my main urlconf. I thought this line of code just linked up the other > urlconf in my app package and that's all it did. > > Well, no it is not "just linked up". Since you put a pattern > "^/articles/$" to be matched in the primary urls.py file, and since the > next argument is "include('article.urls')", that secondary "article.urls" > will never be seen to be matched unless you get a match on the leading > "/articles/". Go back to my previous response and look at the three steps > in matching a nested URL. > > hth > > - Tom > > > > I hope I made my question a little clearer, lol. I'm not sure how to ask > what I want to know. But again, THANKS for the help Tom! > > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Thomas Lockhart > <tlockh...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> >> Tom, thanks so much for the reply. . .Yes, that was a typo, it >>> should've been "/articles" not "/article". >> >> I know this is going to be a stupid question, but why do my "urlconf" >> paths need to have "/articles" >> in it as you said? >> >> There are three steps in the interpretation of the pattern. >> 1) If the pattern starts with "/articles", try matching within your >> "urlconf" file. >> 2) If the remaining portion of the url matches a pattern in the "urlconf" >> file, stop there. >> 3) If the remaining portion does not match in the "urlconf" file, keep >> looking farther down your main url file. >> >> If you don't want the /articles prefix in your paths, write your patterns >> more explicitly at the top level. >> >> It *is* pretty typical to have separate apps have distinct prefixes in >> their URL paths. >> >> hth >> >> - Tom >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Django users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-users/43W4LSOuUUw/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> django-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to django...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >> 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...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to django...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
