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Adil Shirinov
Adil Shirinov

Reputation: 135

Django URLconf loading

I am reading Django's official docs, and there is this sentence on reverse_lazy():

It is useful for when you need to use a URL reversal before your project’s URLConf is loaded.

Could anybody explain what is meant by "URLConf loading"?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 140

Answers (1)

Alasdair
Alasdair

Reputation: 308839

URLconf is short for URL configuration.

Most of the time, your settings has 

ROOT_URLCONF = 'myproject.urls'

in which case your URL conf is the urls.py in the inner project folder.

As the docs sugest, you can’t use reverse at module level in your settings or urls.py, because that code is loaded when the server starts before the urls.py have finished loading. In those cases, you can use reverse_lazy, which delays reversing the url until later.

Upvotes: 1

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