feature request: {% url %} should resolve pattern names

[canburak@…]

url template tag should work exactly like reverse(). It should also resolve the url pattern name.

[Chris Beaven]

Dupe of #3769

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

I don't see how this is a dupe of anything. More precisely, I don't really understand what it is saying. Which features of reverse() are missing and needed in the url template tag?

Reopening for the time being until more information is available.

[anonymous]

in urls.conf you can define names for url patterns like:

(r'^accounts/profile/$', 'baklava.reiloy.shared_page.profile', {}, "profile")

reverse("profile") resolves to /accounts/profile/

{% url "profile" %} resolves to empty.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

Leave out the quotes. The url tag is a slightly odd duck, in that literal strings are not parsed (because it only handles literal strings). You use a pattern name just like a view function name.

If you look in tests/regressiontests/templates/tests.py, you can see a few examples of pattern names being used.