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| author | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2017-08-31 11:57:46 -0400 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2017-08-31 12:00:32 -0400 |
| commit | c51fdda7762083fc3b97b56baa4f6b65398cec1b (patch) | |
| tree | a41afc8520ee8b1384922e7db650cd51bbe453b8 | |
| parent | 20c03399d8fd03484f3ed33d93691c29c2ff5aaf (diff) | |
[1.11.x] Refs #23276 -- Fixed explanation of how calling views works.
"Importing the view" is no longer applicable after
a9fd740d22bc4fed5fdb280c036618000ee13df1.
Backport of 907580557053085578d8de0e1b7309e0e0ed8755 from master
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/intro/overview.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/intro/overview.txt b/docs/intro/overview.txt index 011d1695a0..608faf4a87 100644 --- a/docs/intro/overview.txt +++ b/docs/intro/overview.txt @@ -209,9 +209,9 @@ matches the requested URL. (If none of them matches, Django calls a special-case 404 view.) This is blazingly fast, because the regular expressions are compiled at load time. -Once one of the regexes matches, Django imports and calls the given view, which -is a simple Python function. Each view gets passed a request object -- -which contains request metadata -- and the values captured in the regex. +Once one of the regexes matches, Django calls the given view, which is a Python +function. Each view gets passed a request object -- which contains request +metadata -- and the values captured in the regex. For example, if a user requested the URL "/articles/2005/05/39323/", Django would call the function ``news.views.article_detail(request, |