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superlists/urls.py.
from django.conf.urls import patterns , include, url
from django.contrib import admin
urlpatterns = patterns('',
# Examples:
# url(r'^$', 'superlists.views.home', name='home'),
# url(r'^blog/', include('blog.urls')),
url( r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
As usual, lots of helpful comments and default suggestions from Django.
A url entry starts with a regular expression that defines which URLs it applies to, and
goes on to say where it should send those requests—either to a dot-notation encoded
function likesuperlists.views.home , or maybe to another urls.py file somewhere else
using include.
You can see there’s one entry in there by default there for the admin site. We’re not using
that yet, so let’s comment it out for now:
superlists/urls.py.
from django.conf.urls import patterns , include, url
from django.contrib import admin
urlpatterns = patterns('',
# Examples:
# url(r'^$', 'superlists.views.home', name='home'),
# url(r'^blog/', include('blog.urls')),
# url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
The first entry in urlpatterns has the regular expression ^$, which means an empty
string—could this be the same as the root of our site, which we’ve been testing with “/”?
Let’s find out—what happens if we uncomment that line?
If you’ve never come across regular expressions, you can get away
with just taking my word for it, for now—but you should make a
mental note to go learn about them.
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