django url patterns, how to match two different patterns with multiple options?

Question

I have two patterns like this...

url(r'^(?P<page_lang>\w+)/(?P<page_title>\w+)/$', 'main.views.page', name='page_title'),
url(r'^(?P<foo>\w+)/choice/$', 'main.views.lang_pair_choice', name='lang_pair_choice'), 
url(r'^(?P<bar>\w+)/choice2/', include('quiz.urls')),

The problem is that when I pass 2 things into the URL /something/somethingelse it matches the first one and I am not sure how to get it to do something else

Anush Devendra · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-11 06:37:39Z

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reorder your urls like:

url(r'^(?P<foo>\w+)/choice/$', 'main.views.lang_pair_choice', name='lang_pair_choice'), 
url(r'^(?P<bar>\w+)/choice2/', include('quiz.urls')),
url(r'^(?P<page_lang>\w+)/(?P<page_title>\w+)/$', 'main.views.page', name='page_title'),

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answered Dec 11, 2015 at 6:37

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Joff Over a year ago

neat solution, I will do that this time. In the future if I run across this again, is there any other way to accomplish this?

Anush Devendra Over a year ago

@deltaskelta Django runs through each URL pattern, in order, and stops at the first one that matches the requested URL. So in the future order your urls based on your requirement. Please check the link provided in my answer for more details

Mike Covington Over a year ago

@deltaskelta you just need to make sure you place the more general ones after the more specific ones. If you look at the regexes in this answer, the third one is able to match the first two, so you need to place it after.

Joff Over a year ago

Oh yes, I completely understand that part, what I was getting at is asking if ordering is the only way to do it, or if there was some other way if push came to shove. Thanks for the answer

Anush Devendra Over a year ago

@deltaskelta another way would be to add something before ^(?P<foo>\w+)/choice/$ like ^choices/(?P<foo>\w+)/choice/$ or ^choices/(?P<bar>\w+)/choice2/, this way django will not match the first url and move to check the next one.

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