Thanks for the help.  I can see how I can do something like:

(r'job/(\w+)/$', job_details),

The job_details view can query the DB to see if that job is there, and
then display it.  It looks like I need to learn more about the ()
matching syntax within the raw string.  Karen, thanks for the link...
I have been going through the tutorial but well... I'm impatient!...
didn't quite get there yet.  Am going to read it in full now.

On Sep 17, 11:29 am, Tiago Serafim <tsera...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> When you define the urls patterns, you don't have to specify each
> possibility. What you do is create a pattern that can match all the values
> that might be there and, then, on your view, you check to see if they exist
> on the DB.
>
> One possible way is like this:
> urlpatterns = patterns('',
>    (r'^$', index),
>    (r'^list_jobs/', list_jobs),
>    (r'^job/(?P<job_name>[\_\w]+)/$', list_job_details),
> )
>
> Then, you define you list_job_details like this:
>
> def list_job_details(request, job_name):
>    j = Job.objects..(job_name=job_name)
>
> Check the docs for URLs to see why I used the named group (?<P...>) in the
> url definition.
>
> HTH,
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Thomas <thomas.e.rectenw...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I'm learning Django and have some questions regarding passing data to
> > urlpatterns.  Right now, I have something like this in my urls.py:
>
> > urlpatterns = patterns('',
> >    (r'^$', index),
> >    (r'^list_jobs/', list_jobs),
> > )
>
> > This works fine.  I.e., any URL that matches ^list_jobs/ is handled by
> > the list_jobs method in my views.py.  That calls a template which
> > displays the list of jobs in an HTML table.
>
> > So, now I have a list of jobs displayed in HTML, i.e. something like:
>
> > Job | Severity | Message
>
> > morning_job | INFO | Testing 123
> > evening_job | ERROR | Testing 456
>
> > My next step, I figured would be to have a user click on 'job1' or
> > 'job2' in the table and call up information on that job in a new
> > window.  So, I imagine that the correct way to do this within Django
> > would be to have the HREF point to a the job in the URL.  I.e.:
>
> >http://myserver:8000/morning_job
> >http://myserver:8000/evening_job
>
> > My next though was... grr, how do I do this?  So, I figured I can get
> > the job names in the urls.py by first creating a method:
>
> > from myapp.models import *
> > def get_job_names():
> >    job_names = []
> >    for j in TransJob.objects.all():
> >        job_names.append(j.job)
> >    return job_names
> > job_names = get_job_names()
>
> > So, now I have a list (job_names) that would contain:
>
> > ['morning_job', 'evening_job']
>
> > I think I'm getting close.  Final step is to somehow take that list
> > and put it within urlpatterns.  So, I tried something like:
>
> > urlpatterns = patterns('',
> >    (r'^$', index),
> >    (r'^list_jobs/', list_jobs),
> >    (job_names, list_job_details),
> > )
>
> > Here is where I get lost.  I think I'm going down the wrong path
> > here.  The above comes back with a TypeError saying "unhashable type:
> > 'list'" ... I'm guessing that you can't put a list in place of the raw
> > string that the patterns method expects.  So, my question is... how do
> > I get patterns to match all results for the list.
>
> > I hope this makes some sense.  I tried to be verbose as I'm new to the
> > framework.  Thanks for any assistance.
>
> > Regards,
> > Thomas
>
> --
> Tiago Serafim
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