Django url pattern - string parameter

Question

Django url pattern that have a number parameter is:

url(r\'^polls/(?P\\d+)/$\', \'polls.views.detail\')

What will be the correct

Answer 1

for having a string parameter in url you can have: url like this:

url(r'^polls/(?P[\w\-]+)/$','polls.views.detail')

This will even allow the slug strings to pass eg:strings like node-js etc.