Django URLS, using a ? in the URL

django, regex, urlconf

Solution

? won't match an "?" inside the url , instead it has its own meaning which you can look it up here : Python Regular Expressions If you want to match the exact character of "?" inside your url , you have to somehow escape it ( cause it has a meaning in RegExs ) so you might wanna escape it by a "\" (a backslash ) so you would write \?sort ....

EDIT : Okay so with what you've said in comments , seems here's your problem , `main?sort=popular` occurs on your url pattern when you are rendering the template for `/main/` with the `GET` method dictionary argument of `sort=popular`, just write a function that distinguishes between `GET` and `POST` , in the `GET` part , have sth like `sort_by = request.GET.get('sort','')` and then sort accordingly with the value of sort_by variable, would be sth like :

def main_handler(request):
     if request.method == "POST":
           whatever ... 
     if request.method == "GET" :
           sort_by = request.GET.get('sort','')
           if sort_by:
                 sort by what sort points to 
                 return "the sorted template"
     return render_to_response(the page and it's args)

and let go of that ? inside the url pattern , that's added when you request a page with a GET argument.

Problem

I am trying to do some Django URL matching. i want a few urls where i have http://mysite.com/base?sort=type1/, http://mysite.com/base?sort=type2/, etc. I can't figure out how to URL match these expressions: I'm very new to Django and never used Reg Ex before. What I have for urls.py in my "base" application is: ``` url(r'^$','base.views.main, name='main'), ``` I can't figure out what to put to match my urls with question marks. I'm trying something like ``` url(r'^?sort=popular/$', 'base.views.main_popular', name='main_popular'), ``` Thanks for help!

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