urlconf regexps should allow backreferences

[aaronsw]

Half the coolness of using regular expressions to define the URL scheme is being able to use backreferences in the consequent. That is, if we have something like:

(r'^@([^/]+)/(.*)$', r'proj.apps.myapp.\1')

then when visiting "/@edit/bar") it should call myapp.edit(request, "bar").

[Adrian Holovaty]

Not a bad idea, as long as we figure out how to avoid the potential security problems. That allows any Web user to specify the name of a Python function directly, which may or may not be desirable. That naturally leads into hairy things such as marking views as "public."

[Adrian Holovaty]

I'm closing this one due to the potential security problems. It should be easy enough to get the same functionality with what Django already has.