Django urls regex for query string

Question

Following is from urls.py:

url(r'^\?view=(?P<vtype>instructor|course|room)$', 'index', name='index'),

i can verify that it works by simply calling django.core.urlresolvers.reverse in shell :

In [6]: reverse('index', args=["course"])
Out[6]: '/?view=course'

but when i try to access http://localhost:8000/?view=course i get 404.

What am i doing wrong here?

Thanks

Edit:

url('^search/\?user=(?P<userid>\d+)&type=topic', 'search_forum', name='my_topics'),

this is from a former project which works as expected. sigh...

Do you have anything that is supposed to answer for that URL? — Pål Brattberg
– Pål Brattberg, Commented May 15, 2011 at 20:49
yes, index() normally works without regex. but adding query string regex breaks the url dispatching. — altunyurt
– altunyurt, Commented May 15, 2011 at 20:52

che · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-15 20:53:37Z

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Query string is not part of the URL. If you want to do it this way, you have to use url(r'^$', 'index', name='index') and then look it up in request.GET dictionary in the view.

The usual way, however, is to use url(r'(?P<vtype>instructor|course|room)/$', 'index', name='index'). The querystring approach is the usual workaround for not being able to direct requests according to the non-querystring URL part. Django does not have that limitation.

answered May 15, 2011 at 20:53

che

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karmakaze · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-15 20:55:19Z

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Your regex matches from the beginning (^) but I don't see anything to match the leading '/'. Could this be it?

answered May 15, 2011 at 20:55

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altunyurt Over a year ago

unfortunately not.django url dispatcher resolves the part after the root /. yet i tried if that could be it but no luck :)

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