Simple one, I'm sure. In short, can the Django URL dispatcher tell between
http://site.com/first%2esecond.json and http://site.com/first.second.json ? The reason is that I have a RESTful API, where the object name can be used to address it, and I'd like the name to be able to contain periods. If they are escaped (as in the first line above), it should be clear that the .json is referring to the serialisation, and is not part of the name (which is "first.second") But Django seems to get the URL already unescaped, meaning it thinks .second (or .second.json) is the serialisation. Simplified, the regex is: portions = { 'id': '(?P<id>[.a-z]+)', 'emitter': '\.(?P<emitter_format>json|xml|yaml|pickle)', } ... urlpatterns = patterns('', url('^%(id)s%(emitter)s$' % portions, api), ) So I would expect that something like: 'id': '(?P<id>[%0-9a-z]+)', Would be able to pick up escaped punctuation (which I am perfectly happy to unescape myself, later). But it does not, since %2e has already become . before the regex is applied. Is there an accepted idiom for Django and escaped characters in URLs? (Life used to be so simple when most of the interesting bits of a URL were in the querystring ;-) ) Many thanks for any ideas. James PS. I use the wonderful Piston, by the way. Not relevant, just a shout out! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
