Django Design Patterns and Best Practices: Industry-standard web development techniques and solutions using Python, 2nd Edition

by Arun Ravindran

Old (regular expression pattern) New (simplified pattern) # Homepage url(r'^$', IndexView.as_view(), name='home'), # Homepage path('', IndexView.as_view(), name='home'), url(r'^about/$', AboutView.as_view(), name='about'), path('about/', AboutView.as_view(), name='home'), url(r'^hello/(?P<name>\w+)/$', views.hello_fn), path('hello/<str:name>/', views.hello_fn), url(r'^(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/(?P<month>[-\w]+)/' '(?P<day>[0-9]+)/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', path('<int:year>/<int:month>/' '<int:day>/<int:pk>/',