Hi, I'm the author of Django Unleashed. A second edition is in the works, but it is taking some time (I'm also working on a video series).
Django 2.0 introduced a simplified system for URLs. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/releases/2.0/#simplified-url-routing-syntax If you want wish to use the new syntax while following along with the examples in Django Unleashed, you have two choices. Choice 1: replace regular expression syntax with the simplified syntax, using path matchers at the link below instead of regular expression patterns. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics/http/urls/#path-converters In this case, the code below... from django.conf.urls import url ... url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]+)/$', viewCallable) would be replaced with... from django.urls import path ... path('articles/<int:year>/<int:month>/<slug:slug>/', viewCallable) Note that viewCallable is pseudocode for a function view or class-based view (viewClass.as_view()). This involves changing every URL path (and now you know why the second edition is taking forever). Please note the new imports. Choice 2: Use Django's new `re_path()` function instead of `url()` to fallback on original Django behavior. In this case, the code below... from django.conf.urls import url ... url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]+)/$', viewCallable) would be replaced with... from django.urls import re_path ... re_path(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]+)/$', viewCallable) Only the function has changed: the regex pattern has not. Read more about that at the link below. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics/http/urls/#using-regular-expressions I might recommend using Choice 2 when following along with the book, but to give Choice 1 a whirl (after reading Django's documentation) on a new project as it's easier to read. I hope this helps! Andrew http://jambonsw.com http://django-unleashed.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/52151FC1-6C32-4D85-9C2C-199BC849CCB8%40andrewsforge.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
