Django url problem

Question

I'm getting this error

error at /
unknown specifier: ?P&

and I suppose it's coming from this line

(r'^(?P<template>\w+)/$', static_page),

I copied this from a tutorial, how do I fix this error ?

Answer 1

You want to use

r'^(?P<template>\w+)/$'

for your regex. You seem to have copied the regex with HTML entities still encoded; the regex engine expects verbatim < and >.