I have to match URLs in my Django re_path function.

The structures to be matched are as follows:

1. Any URL must start with an optional /user string followed with a /profile part
2. After that, there should be either /, other URL subparts, or end of string

Here below the examples for allowed URLs:

• /profile
• /profile/
• /profile/asd
• /profile/asd/
• /user/profile
• /user/profile/
• /user/profile/asd
• /user/profile/asd/
• /user/profile/asd/blah

I tried the following, but it fails:

re_path(r'^profile/?.*$', views.my_view)

Any help is appreciated.

CodePudding user response：

You can use

^/(?:user/)?profile(?:/.*)?$

See regex demo. Details:

• ^ - start of string
• / - a / char
• (?:user/)? - an optional user/ string
• profile - a fixesd string
• (?:/.*)? - an optional sequence of a / char and then any zero or more chars other than line break chars as many as possible
• $ - end of string.