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Python Django Basics What a View! What Are URLs?

Posted by Keith Ostertag
Keith Ostertag
16,619 Points

Use of regex in this video? Where is re being imported? and why r'^$' rather than r'' ?

I am not seeing where the re module is being imported in either views.py or urls.py- does it not need to explicitly be imported?

Also, Kenneth uses url(r'^$', views.hello_world) in the urls.py file. Would url(r'', views.hello_world) not be correct? I tried both with the same results.

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Haydar Al-Rikabi
Haydar Al-Rikabi
5,971 Points
Haydar Al-Rikabi
Haydar Al-Rikabi
5,971 Points

I believe r'' is a python statement, not a Django-specific module. That's why you don't need to import it. Also, r'' is the same as r'^$' because the base url of your site does not have anything that comes after it. I hope this answer your question.