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July 31, 2025

Django: write a custom URL path converter to match given strings

published by Adam Johnson
in blog Adam Johnson
original entry Django: write a custom URL path converter to match given strings

Here’s a little tip based on some work that I did recently. The project has a URL pattern where the first part of the URL matches the current role the user is viewing the site as. Let’s say the roles are “chef”, “gourmand”, and “foodie”—example URLs might …