How do I make a trailing slash optional with webapp2?

Question

I\'m using the new webapp2 (now the default webapp in 1.6), and I haven\'t been able to figure out how to make the trailing slash optional in code like this:

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Answer 1

webapp2.Route template is not a regular expressions and your value is being escaped with re.escape. You can use old style rules which provides regular expression templates:

 webapp2.SimpleRoute('^/feed/?$', handler = feed)