URL regular expression help

Question

Using this regular espression in my urls.py file, I get only the last letter in the add_or_remove param. The url hits my view, but I am getting only d for add and e for remove. What am I doing wrong?

r'(?P<add_or_remove>[add|remove])/'

Thanks

Answer 1

I'll admit I'm not familiar with Python. But if your trying to capture add or remove, your syntax is wrong. That is to say you don't want the brackets as this is notation for a character set - matching any in the set.

r'(?P<add_or_remove>add|remove)/'

Answer 2

This happens because [...] matches any character from set. Just remove bracers (using bracers from (?P<>...) is usually enough):

r'(?P<add_or_remove>add|remove)/'

Answer 3

Change the square brackets to round () brackets. The way it is now matches any of the characters a d d | r e etc...