Python + Django page redirect

Question

How do I accomplish a simple redirect (e.g. cflocation in ColdFusion, or header(location:http://) for PHP) in Django?

Answer 1

Since Django 1.1, you can also use the simpler redirect shortcut:

from django.shortcuts import redirect

def myview(request):
    return redirect('/path')

It also takes an optional permanent=True keyword argument.

Answer 2

page_path = define in urls.py

def deletePolls(request):
    pollId = deletePool(request.GET['id'])
    return HttpResponseRedirect("/page_path/")

Answer 3

If you want to redirect a whole subfolder, the url argument in RedirectView is actually interpolated, so you can do something like this in urls.py:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import url
from django.views.generic import RedirectView

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^old/(?P<path>.*)$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/new_path/%(path)s')),
]

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The ?P<path> you capture will be fed into RedirectView. This captured variable will then be replaced in the url argument you gave, giving us /new_path/yay/mypath if your original path was /old/yay/mypath.

You can also do ….as_view(url='…', query_string=True) if you want to copy the query string over as well.

Answer 4

With Django version 1.3, the class based approach is:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, url
from django.views.generic import RedirectView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^some-url/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/redirect-url/'), name='some_redirect'),
)

This example lives in in urls.py