I wouldn’t do this directly in the urls.py
, I’d instead use the class-based RedirectView
to calculate the view to redirect to:
from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse_lazy
class RedirectSomewhere(RedirectView):
def get_redirect_url(self, param):
return reverse_lazy('resource-view',
kwargs={'param': param},
current_app='myapp')
Then, in your urls.py
you can do this:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^coolresource/(?P<param>\d+)/$',
RedirectSomewhere.as_view()),
)