Inconsistency in docs: Leading zero of numbers in URLconf

[wegener92@…]

In ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/http/urls/#example, the suggested regex for an article / numbers in a url is

r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/(\d+)/$'

But in ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/models/instances/#django.db.models.permalink, it says

r'/archive/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\d{1,2})/(?P<day>\d{1,2})/$'

In particular, the first expression allows only 05 for a month, the second 05 and 5, which leads to multiple urls for the same content. Additionally, the example get_absolute_url method wouldn't match the first expression (\d{2}) for dates with month or day below 10.

I first thought this is a "support issue", not a bug, so you may want to read my post on ​stackoverflow.com. It was recommended to me to submit bug report because of this inconsistency in the docs.

[Aymeric Augustin]

Rather minor, but why not.

[Maura Chace]

Patched the docs to not have any ambiguous date urls (so no d{1,2}).

[Adam Nelson]

patch applies cleanly and text makes sense

[James Bennett]

In [16811]:

Fixed #16109: Corrected an inconsistency in URLconf examples for matching a numeric month.

[James Bennett]

In [16812]:

[1.3.X] Fixed #16109: Corrected an inconsistency in URLconf examples for matching a numeric month. Backport of [16811] from trunk.