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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/http/urls.txt | 16 |
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diff --git a/docs/topics/http/urls.txt b/docs/topics/http/urls.txt index 36a43ed704..52ef88b113 100644 --- a/docs/topics/http/urls.txt +++ b/docs/topics/http/urls.txt @@ -51,11 +51,17 @@ algorithm the system follows to determine which Python code to execute: 3. Django runs through each URL pattern, in order, and stops at the first one that matches the requested URL. -4. Once one of the regexes matches, Django imports and calls the given - view, which is a simple Python function (or a :doc:`class based view - </topics/class-based-views/index>`). The view gets passed an - :class:`~django.http.HttpRequest` as its first argument and any values - captured in the regex as remaining arguments. +4. Once one of the regexes matches, Django imports and calls the given view, + which is a simple Python function (or a :doc:`class based view + </topics/class-based-views/index>`). The view gets passed the following + arguments: + + * An instance of :class:`~django.http.HttpRequest`. + * If the matched regular expression returned no named groups, then the + matches from the regular expression are provided as positional arguments. + * The keyword arguments are made up of any named groups matched by the + regular expression, overridden by any arguments specified in the optional + ``kwargs`` argument to :func:`django.conf.urls.url`. 5. If no regex matches, or if an exception is raised during any point in this process, Django invokes an appropriate |