django-urls

In a Django view you can access the request.GET['variablename'] , so in your view you can do something like this: myvar = request.GET['myvar'] The actual request.GET['myvar'] object type is: <class 'django.http.QueryDict'> Now, if you want to pass multiple variables with the same parameter name, i.e: http://example.com/blah/?myvar=123&myvar=567 You would like a python list returned for the parameter myvar , then do something like this: for var in request.GET['myvar']: print(var) However, when you try that you only get the last value passed in the url i.e in the example above you will get 567 ,

In a django online course, the instructor has us use the url() function to call views and utilize regular expressions in the urlpatterns list. I've seen other examples on youtube of this. e.g. from django.contrib import admin from django.urls import include from django.conf.urls import url urlpatterns = [ path('admin/', admin.site.urls), url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')), ] #and in polls/urls.py urlpatterns = [ url(r'^$', views.index, name="index"), ] However, in going through the Django tutorial, they use path() instead e.g.: from django.urls import path from . import views urlpatterns =