Django and urls.py: How do I HttpResponseRedirect via a named url?

Question

I\'m writing a member-based web application, and I need to be able to redirect the page after login. I want to use the named url from my urls.py script in my views.py file f

Answer 1

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.shortcuts import redirect

def login(request):
    if request.session.get('user'):
        return redirect(reverse('name-of-url'))

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