Python – Django ‘resolve’ : get the url name instead of the view_function

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My problem is simple, I have an url, I would like to resolve it, but get the url name instead of the view function associated with it …

For example… this is urlconf :

urlpatterns = patterns('',
...
    url('^/books/$', book_list, name="overview_books"),
...
)

And this is what I would like :

>>> resolve('/books/')
'overview_books'

Do you know any way to do this ?

Best Answer

In Django 1.3 and newer you can use resolve function:

from django.core.urlresolvers import resolve
print resolve('/books/').url_name