Is it better to use path or url in urls py for django 2 0

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In a django online course  the instructor has us use the url   function to call views and utilize regular expressions in the urlpatterns list  I ve seen other examples on youtube of this  e g   from django contrib import admin from django urls import include from django conf urls import url  urlpatterns         path  admin    admin site urls       url r  polls    include  polls urls          and in polls urls py  urlpatterns                 url r      views index  name  index        However  in going through the Django tutorial  they use path   instead e g    from django urls import path from   import views  urlpatterns         path     views index  name  index                Furthermore regular expressions don t seem to work with the path   function as using a path r      views index  name  index   won t find the mysite com polls  view    Is using path   without regex matching the proper way going forward  Is url   more powerful but more complicated so they re using path   to start us out with  Or is it a case of different tools for different jobs

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From Django documentation for url  url regex  view  kwargs None  name None  This function is an alias to django urls re path    It   s likely to be deprecated in a future release   Key difference between path and re path is that path uses route without regex You can use re path for complex regex calls and use just path for simpler lookups

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Path is a new feature of Django 2 0  Explained here   https   docs djangoproject com en 2 0 releases 2 0  whats-new-2-0  Look like more pythonic way  and enable to not use regular expression in argument you pass to view    you can ue int   function for exemple

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From v2 0 many users are using path  but we can use either path or url  For example in django 2 1 1 mapping to functions through url can be done as follows  from django contrib import admin from django urls import path  from django contrib auth import login from posts views import post home from django conf urls import url  urlpatterns         path  admin    admin site urls       url r  posts     post home  name  post home         where posts is an application  amp  post home is a function in views py

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The new django urls path   function allows a simpler  more readable URL routing syntax  For example  this example from previous Django releases   url r  articles   P lt year gt  0-9  4       views year archive    could be written as   path  articles  lt int year gt     views year archive    The django conf urls url    function from previous versions is now available as django urls re path    The old location remains for backwards compatibility  without an imminent deprecation  The old django conf urls include   function is now importable from django urls so you can use   from django urls import include  path  re path   in the URLconfs  For further reading django doc

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path is simply new in Django 2 0  which was only released a couple of weeks ago  Most tutorials won t have been updated for the new syntax   It was certainly supposed to be a simpler way of doing things  I wouldn t say that URL is more powerful though  you should be able to express patterns in either format

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Regular expressions don t seem to work with the path   function with the following arguments  path r      views index  name  index     It should be like this  path     views index  name  index     The 1st argument must be blank to enter a regular expression

[python] Is it better to use path() or url() in urls.py for django 2.0?

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