Is it better to use path() or url() in urls.py for django 2.0?

Question

In a django online course, the instructor has us use the url() function to call views and utilize regular expressions in the urlpatterns list. I\'ve seen other

Answer 1

The new django.urls.path() function allows a simpler, more readable URL routing syntax. For example, this example from previous Django releases:

url(r'^articles/(?P[0-9]{4})/$', views.year_archive)

could be written as:

path('articles//', views.year_archive)

The django.conf.urls.url() function from previous versions is now available as django.urls.re_path(). The old location remains for backwards compatibility, without an imminent deprecation. The old django.conf.urls.include() function is now importable from django.urls so you can use:

from django.urls import include, path, re_path

in the URLconfs. For further reading django doc