How Django processes a request

Example
Here’ s a sample URLconf:

from django.urls import path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path(‘articles/2003/’, views.special_case_2003),
path(‘articles/int:year/’, views.year_archive),
path(‘articles/int:year/int:month/’, views.month_archive),
path(‘articles/int:year/int:month/slug:slug/’, views.article_detail),
]

Notes:
• To capture a value from the URL, use angle brackets.
• Captured values can optionally include a converter type. For example, use int:name to capture an integer
parameter. If a converter isn’t included, any string, excluding a / character, is matched.
• There’s no need to add a leading slash, because every URL has that. For example, it’s articles, not /
articles.
Example requests:
• A request to /articles/2005/03/ would match the third entry in the list. Django would call the function
views.month_archive(request, year=2005, month=3).
• /articles/2003/ would match the first pattern in the list, not the second one, because the patterns are
tested in order, and the first one is the first test to pass. Feel free to exploit the ordering to insert special cases
like this. Here, Django would call the function views.special_case_2003(request)
• /articles/2003 would not match any of these patterns, because each pattern requires that the URL end
with a slash.
• /articles/2003/03/building-a-django-site/ would match the final pattern. Django
would call the function views.article_detail(request, year=2003, month=3,
slug=“building-a-django-site”).