Django url pattern - string parameter

Question

Django url pattern that have a number parameter is:

url(r'^polls/(?P<poll_id>\d+)/$', 'polls.views.detail') 

What will be the correct syntax if my poll_id is not a number but a string of character?

Answer 1

In newer versions of Django such as 2.1 you can use

path('polls/<str:poll_id>', views.polls_detail) 

as given here Django URL dispatcher

def polls_detail(request,poll_id): #process your request here 

Answer 2

for having a string parameter in url you can have: url like this:

url(r'^polls/(?P<string>[\w\-]+)/$','polls.views.detail') 

This will even allow the slug strings to pass eg:strings like node-js etc.