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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2017-12-27 12:23:44 -0500
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2017-12-27 12:24:07 -0500
commit1b27374b0de49dd6afff80b730774bccc9551cc3 (patch)
tree489580688286a39cc408d34345e359bf71a077fe /docs
parent4e4619a2b8f79699fbdb2c4f1bc4db55f59af6e6 (diff)
[2.0.x] Fixed #28966 -- Doc'd that the uuid URL path converter requires dashes
Backport of 038ea4f8593618cf0f408f15f756f2145de0d40e from master
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@@ -127,9 +127,10 @@ The following path converters are available by default:
plus the hyphen and underscore characters. For example,
``building-your-1st-django-site``.
-* ``uuid`` - Matches a formatted UUID (letters must be lowercase). For example,
- ``075194d3-6885-417e-a8a8-6c931e272f00``. Returns a :class:`~uuid.UUID`
- instance.
+* ``uuid`` - Matches a formatted UUID. To prevent multiple URLs from mapping to
+ the same page, dashes must be included and letters must be lowercase. For
+ example, ``075194d3-6885-417e-a8a8-6c931e272f00``. Returns a
+ :class:`~uuid.UUID` instance.
* ``path`` - Matches any non-empty string, including the path separator,
``'/'``. This allows you to match against a complete URL path rather than