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Justin
Justin

Reputation: 1479

Why does Django 3.0.6 generate the urlpatterns variable using the url() function instead of the path() function

After creating and checking I am running a Python 3.6.1 virtual environment and have Django 3.0.6 installed, I created a project. Within this project the urls.py file is as shown:

from django.conf.urls import url
from django.contrib import admin

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

However, the Django 3 documentation says the following: "urlpatterns should be a sequence of path() and/or re_path() instances."(https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/http/urls/#syntax-of-the-urlpatterns-variable)

If this is the case why does it not generate as path('admin/', admin.site.urls)?

Can anyone explain this? From my understanding the url() function is outdated/will be depreciated, but it seems Django is baking it into the project. I believe I am supposed to be using path() but I am not sure.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 229

Answers (1)

iklinac
iklinac

Reputation: 15738

path() is a new way of generating paths that does not involve regex and it is a bit more readable 

path('blog/page<int:num>/', views.page),

re_path() is an old regex style ( prior to django 2.0 only way to define urlconf entries it has also alias url())

re_path(r'^blog/(?P<page>[0-9]*)/$', views.page)

Upvotes: 1

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