Python + Django page redirect

Question

How do I accomplish a simple redirect (e.g. cflocation in ColdFusion, or header(location:http://) for PHP) in Django?

Answer 1

If you want to redirect a whole subfolder, the url argument in RedirectView is actually interpolated, so you can do something like this in urls.py:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import url
from django.views.generic import RedirectView

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^old/(?P.*)$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/new_path/%(path)s')),
]

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The ?P you capture will be fed into RedirectView. This captured variable will then be replaced in the url argument you gave, giving us /new_path/yay/mypath if your original path was /old/yay/mypath.

You can also do ….as_view(url='…', query_string=True) if you want to copy the query string over as well.