Documentation for the url template tags in 1.4

[Greg Nicholas]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think 1.4's documentation has jumped the gun in describing the url template tag's syntax.

According to 1.4's documentation:

{% url 'path.to.some_view' v1 v2 %}

The first argument is a path to a view function in the format package.package.module.function. It can be a quoted literal or any other context variable. 

Based on some simple tests I've run, it cannot be a quoted literal.  i.e. {% url myapp.views.home %} works, while {% url 'myapp.views.home' %} fails.

This makes complete sense after taking a look at the docs for 1.3. It contains a "Forwards compatibility" section that says this quoted view behavior will be the standard in 1.5, and until then {% load url from future %} is necessary to enable it, but the 1.4 docs describe the situation as if it is already the standard.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Hi Greg,

Thanks for the report. From the look of it, the problem is actually
with Django's documentation site, not with the documentation itself.

If you look at the raw source file for the documentation in 1.4:

https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/1.4.x/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt#L1096

You'll see that the source for the documentation in 1.4 still has the
future-compatibility warning, and the 'old' syntax.

This means the problem is with the Djangoproject website; for some
reason, it's showing the trunk documentation for 1.4, rather than the
docs from the actual 1.4 branch.

This is probably an artefact of our recent move to GitHub; it's taking
a while to get all our ducks back in a row when it comes to things
like the docs that are auto generated out of source.

I've logged a ticket to track the problem:

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18293

Yours,
Russ Magee %-)

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[Greg Nicholas]

Great, thanks for looking into it!

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