Django RedirectView and reverse() doesn't work together?

Question

I\'m having this weird problem.

When I did this:

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
reverse(\'account-reco-about-you\')
# returns \'/accoun         


        

Answer 1

This problem is to do with trying to reverse something at import time before the URLs are ready to be reversed. This is not a problem with RedirectView itself - it would happen with anything where you tried to reverse in your urls.py file, or possibly in a file imported by it.

In the development version of Django, there is a function called reverse_lazy specifically to help in this situation.

If you're using an earlier version of Django, there is a solution here: Reverse Django generic view, post_save_redirect; error 'included urlconf doesnt have any patterns'.