Last Updated: February 25, 2016

Django URL redirect shortcut

Redirect from urls.py to another named URL, without having to create a whole new view:

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect

def lazy_redirect(name, args=None, kwargs=None,
 http_response=HttpResponseRedirect):
 """
 Make a redirect view directly from `urls.py`.
 Takes the same arguments as
 `django.core.urlresolvers.reverse`, with an
 additional argument `http_response`. Use
 `http_response` to change the HttpResponse class
 used in the redirect. It defaults to
 `HttpResponseRedirect`.
 """

 def redirect(_):
 destination = reverse(name,
 args=args,
 kwargs=kwargs)
 return http_response(destination)

 return redirect


urlpatterns = patterns('',
 url(r'^redirect-me/$', lazy_redirect(
 'page.view_page',
 kwargs={'name': 'landing-page.html'})
)

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