Django url debugger

Question

I\'m developing a django application and over time, the URLs have grown. I have a lot of them with me now and due to some change I made, one view started to malfunction. When I

Answer 1

I would comment out the patterns in your url.py until you get a 404 error when you try to navigate to foo. If that pattern is an include, I would recurse down that and comment out lines in that url.py. Eventually you will know exactly which pattern is matching.

Then I would take the view function that it is calling and hard code that. If it is using a generic view or something subtle, I'd make it as obvious and direct as possible. At that point, you should know which rule is matching and why and what code it is executing in the view.