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

There is a doc for that

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/urls/#reverse-resolution-of-urls

it can be used to generate an URL for a given view

main advantage is that you do not hard code routes in your code.