Django RedirectView and reverse() doesn't work together?

Question

I\'m having this weird problem.

When I did this:

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
reverse(\'account-reco-about-you\')
# returns \'/accoun         


        

Answer 1

You need to use "reverse_lazy" that is defined in "django.core.urlresolvers" in Django 1.4 and above.

Here is an example urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.views.generic import RedirectView
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse_lazy

# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('apps.website.views',
    url(r'^$', 'home', name='website_home'),
    url(r'^redirect-home/$', RedirectView.as_view(url=reverse_lazy('website_home')), 
        name='redirect_home'),

)

So in the above example, the url "/redirect-home" will redirect to "/". Hope this helps.