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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/http/urls.txt | 7 |
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diff --git a/docs/topics/http/urls.txt b/docs/topics/http/urls.txt index c7a9d0a494..21084fe176 100644 --- a/docs/topics/http/urls.txt +++ b/docs/topics/http/urls.txt @@ -178,8 +178,8 @@ The URLconf doesn't look at the request method. In other words, all request methods -- ``POST``, ``GET``, ``HEAD``, etc. -- will be routed to the same function for the same URL. -Notes on capturing text in URLs -=============================== +Captured arguments are always strings +===================================== Each captured argument is sent to the view as a plain Python string, regardless of what sort of match the regular expression makes. For example, in this @@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ URLconf line:: ...the ``year`` argument to ``news.views.year_archive()`` will be a string, not an integer, even though the ``\d{4}`` will only match integer strings. +Specifying defaults for view arguments +====================================== + A convenient trick is to specify default parameters for your views' arguments. Here's an example URLconf and view:: |