How to pass information using an HTTP redirect (in Django)

Question

I have a view that accepts a form submission and updates a model.

After updating the model, I want to redirect to another page, and I want a message such as \"Field X su

Answer 1

You could also have the redirect url be the path to an already parameterized view.

urls.py:

(r'^some/path/(?P\w+)/$', direct_to_template,
    {'template': 'field_updated_message.html',
    },
    'url-name'
),

views.py:

HttpResponseRedirect( reverse('url-name', args=(myfieldname,)) )

Note that args= needs to take a tuple.