What is the advantage of Class-Based views?

Question

I read today that Django 1.3 alpha is shipping, and the most touted new feature is the introduction of class-based views.
I\'ve read the relevant documentation, but I fi

Answer 1

If self.args[0] is bothering you, the alternative is:

urlpatterns = patterns('books.views',
    url(r'^books/(?P\w+)/$', 'publisher_books_list', name="publisher_books_list"),
)

Then you could use self.kwargs['slug'] instead, making it slightly more readable.