On Saturday 11 April 2009 03:13:18 pm codecowboy wrote: > What is the point of using the reverse() method? >
I'm answering this because I want to make sure that my idea of it is the same
as the rest of the community and would definately like feedback on it.
Using this example:
urlpatterns = patterns ('fun',
url(r'^fun/$', 'views.place', name="fun_place"),
)
reverse('fun_place') will return the url, in this case, 'fun/'.
I use reverse in various view functions and other places, such as http
redirects. To me it's a lot like the models.permalink decorator on non-model
based urls and fits in with the DRY philosophy.
Using this style in your code allows you to edit the the url pattern, or the
funciton call, or any other part of the url pattern without ever having to
change anything else in your code, unless you edit the name parameter.
Mike
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