Template syntax error: Could not parse the remainder: '-login' from 'accounts-login'

[Loai Ghoraba]

Hi

I have this in my urls.py

    url(r'^accounts/login/$', login,name="accounts-login")

and in a template base.html

 <a href="{%url accounts-login%}?next=/somelink/">login</a>

And when I try to open the site, this error is raised: Template syntax error: Could not parse the remainder: '-login' from 'accounts-login'

But when I change the name of the url in both urls.py and base.html to something without the score '-', it works: like :accountslogin.

So are scores banned in named urls ? I have seen scored-named-urls in the documentation !

Thanks in advance.

[Nikhil Verma]

Try <a href="{% url auth_login %}?next=/somelink">Sign in

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[Loai Ghoraba]

not working, giving: Reverse for '' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{}' not found.

also I want to know about this dash (sorry for using the term score in the previous post ) thing

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Nikhil Verma <varma.n...@gmail.com> wrote:

{% url auth_login %}

[Loai Ghoraba]

okay I found it:

it should be  <a href="{%url "accounts-login"%}?next=/somelink/">login</a> with quotes. Thanks.

[Larry Martell]

Hyphens are valid in urls, but not in python. A hyphen is an operator
in python (subtraction operator), so you cannot use it in django.

[donarb]

Except, the Django documentation states that url names with dashes are acceptable and the examples show url tags using unquoted names. It even says you can use any character you want:

The string used for the URL name can contain any characters you like. You are not restricted to valid Python names.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/http/urls/#id2

[donarb]

Correction, the syntax has changed between 1.4 and 1.5. You are now required to quote the name in the url tag.