limodou,
I don't understand what [\w-]{1,100} and [\w-]+ are doing. Can you
please explain?
Thank You
On May 8, 9:55 pm, limodou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/9/07, gsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Is there any documentation of what these do? I'm assuming that this
> > is a Python regular expression?
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> > The reason I ask is becuase I have a line in my urls.py file that
> > looks like this
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> > (r'^csi/rso/(news|members)/(\w{1,100})/$',
> > 'mysite.rso.views_rso.showtitlepage'), This works fine when the value
> > of my url doesn't contain a "-". However, sometimes I have a url like
> > below
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> > "csi/rso/members/the-test/"
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> > The above errors out becuase of the "-" in the url. Does anybody know
> > what I need to use to accept the character "-" in the url?
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> > Also, on a side note...is it good to have \w{1,100}. This variable is
> > going to be a name. I'll never know how long a name is and it's
> > doubtful that a name would be 100 characters. Is there a better way
> > of capturing this value.
>
> > Thanks for any help
>
> I suggest that you can test the length of the name in view method, and
> don't limit the length of url pattern. The pattern could be:
>
> [\w-]{1,100}
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> If you don't want {1,100}, you could [\w-]+
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