Using {% url ??? %} in django templates

Question

I have looked a lot on google for answers of how to use the \'url\' tag in templates only to find many responses saying \'You just insert it into your template and point it

Answer 1

The selected answer is out of date and no others worked for me (Django 1.6 and [apparantly] no registered namespace.)

For Django 1.5 and later (from the docs)

Warning Don’t forget to put quotes around the function path or pattern name!

With a named URL you could do:

(r'^login/', login_view, name='login'),
...
logout

Just as easy if the view takes another parameter

def login(request, extra_param):
...
login