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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2017-08-31 11:57:46 -0400
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2017-08-31 11:57:46 -0400
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treeef8cf48295af6cab5045fa04a09655ecec5bbee5 /docs/intro
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Refs #23276 -- Fixed explanation of how calling views works.
"Importing the view" is no longer applicable after a9fd740d22bc4fed5fdb280c036618000ee13df1.
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@@ -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,