Added documentation of the arguments for the url() function.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@5945 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

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diff --git a/docs/url_dispatch.txt b/docs/url_dispatch.txt
index 92730f1446..76a4e1b5f0 100644
--- a/docs/url_dispatch.txt
+++ b/docs/url_dispatch.txt
@@ -204,8 +204,16 @@ optional extra arguments dictionary. For example::
         ...
     )
 
+This function takes five arguments, most of which are optional::
+
+    url(regex, view, kwargs=None, name=None, prefix='')
+
 See `Naming URL patterns`_ for why the ``name`` parameter is useful.
 
+The ``prefix`` parameter has the same meaning as the first argument to
+``patterns()`` and is only relevant when you're passing a string as the
+``view`` parameter.
+
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