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The hidden powers of Custom Django 2.0 Path Converters

May 11, 2018May 14, 2018Daniel HepperDjango, Web Development

In my last article, I explained the new approach in Django 2.0 to define URL patterns and specifically how to capture URL parameter. In this article, we will have a closer look at Django path converters, the bit you can optionally put before the colon in a URL parameter definition. Here are some examples: Path […]

Django 2.0 url() to path() cheatsheet

May 2, 2018May 11, 2018Daniel HepperDjango, Web Development

Django 2.0 introduced a new way to define URLs, which greatly simplifies how parameters are captured. In earlier versions of Django, you had to use the url() method and pass a regular expressions with named capturing groups to capture URL parameters. url(r’^posts/(?P<post_id>[0-9]+)/$’, post_detail_view) In Django 2.0, you use the path() method with path converters to […]