On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 01:44 +0000, benrawk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I am running the simple current_datetime example from the django
> book, and then edit my urls.py to look like the one in the book, the
> page doesn't server.
>
> Book urls.py:
> from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
> f from mysite.views import current_datetime
>
> urlpatterns = patterns('',
> (r'^now/$', current_datetime),
> )
>
> Error:
> Using the URLconf defined in mysite.urls, Django tried these URL
> patterns, in this order:
> 1. ^now/$
> The current URL, /mysite/now/, didn't match any of these.
>
> When I remove the '^' from the front of the regex pattern and add a
> '/', suddenly the page works! Why could the '^' be killing the regex
> match?
Because in Python regular expressions (and most other reg-exp engines),
the "^" means "match from the beginning of the string".
Removing this anchor to the beginning of the string isn't the solution
to your problem. Your URL pattern will also match /white-as-snow/, for
example.
Regards,
Malcolm
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
> >
>
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