what is reverse() in Django

Question

When I read django code sometimes, I see in some templates reverse(). I am not quite sure what this is but it is used together with HttpResponseRedirect. How an

Answer 1

This is an old question, but here is something that might help someone.

From the official docs:

Django provides tools for performing URL reversing that match the different layers where URLs are needed: In templates: Using the url template tag. In Python code: Using the reverse() function. In higher level code related to handling of URLs of Django model instances: The get_absolute_url() method.

Eg. in templates (url tag)

2012 Archive

Eg. in python code (using the reverse function)

return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('news-year-archive', args=(year,)))