python regular expression appengine

Question

i have an application that uses appengine with python. Its a social network that maps places. I want to have each place in this kind or url: www.mysite.com/place/nameoftheplace

for that i did this regular expression as a parameter of mine WSGIApplication:

r'/place/(.*)'

and on the get requisition i have:

def get(self, placeName=""):

but for some reason, if i call www.mysite.com/place/theplace, it enters the get with placeName = "theplace" and after the get ends, it call itself over and over, with a diferent placename like "/css/something". Can anyone help me? Thank you very much.

do you have a better ideia so i can create redirect every /place/nameoftheplace to the same GET requisition? — Paulo Barros
– Paulo Barros, Commented Apr 5, 2011 at 21:46
@nightcracker Because that's the appropriate way to do this in the App Engine webapp framework? — Nick Johnson
– Nick Johnson, Commented Apr 6, 2011 at 1:03

Wooble · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-05 23:00:01Z

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It sounds like you're using relative URLs in your <link rel-'stylesheet' href='css/something'> tags in your HTML, so the browser is trying to fetch /place/css/something.

In your HTML, use, e.g., <link rel='stylesheet' href='/static/something.css'>, and in app.yaml use:

- url: /static/
  static_dir: static

then place your CSS in the static directory.

edited Apr 5, 2011 at 23:00

answered Apr 5, 2011 at 22:00

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Paulo Barros Over a year ago

yes, you are right. How can i solve that? I have lots of relative URLs so its almost impossible to clear that out. Is there any other regular expression that can help me? Like if i take out the '/'. How can i make it? Thanks

Nick Johnson Over a year ago

@user469631 You'll simply have to find the relative URLs and prefix them with / - this is a bug in your markup.

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