Optional get parameters in django?

Question

Can someone please explain how you can write a url pattern and view that allows optional parameters? I\'ve done this successfully, but I always break the url template tag.

Answer 1

Others have demonstrated the way to handle this with two separate named URL patterns. If the repetition of part of the URL pattern bothers you, it's possible to get rid of it by using include():

url(r'^so/(?P\d+)/', include('myapp.required_urls'))

And then add a required_urls.py file with:

url(r'^$', 'myapp.so', name='something')
url(r'^(?P.+)/$', 'myapp.so', name='something_else')

Normally I wouldn't consider this worth it unless there's a common prefix for quite a number of URLs (certainly more than two).