Translating URL patterns

After installing this package, URL patterns can also be marked translatable using the ugettext_lazy() function. Example:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, include, url
from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

urlpatterns = patterns(''
    url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'sitemap.view', name='sitemap_xml'),
)

news_patterns = patterns(''
    url(r'^$', 'news.views.index', name='index'),
    url(_(r'^category/(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$'), 'news.views.category', name='category'),
    url(r'^(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$', 'news.views.details', name='detail'),
)

urlpatterns += i18n_patterns('',
    url(_(r'^about/$'), 'about.view', name='about'),
    url(_(r'^news/$'), include(news_patterns, namespace='news')),
)

After you've created the translations, the reverse() function will return the URL in the active language. Example:

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.utils.translation import activate

>>> activate('en')
>>> reverse('news:category', kwargs={'slug': 'recent'})
'/en/news/category/recent/'

>>> activate('nl')
>>> reverse('news:category', kwargs={'slug': 'recent'})
'/nl/nieuws/categorie/recent/'

Installation

• Install the django-i18nurls package (eg: pip install django-i18nurls).
• Add i18nurls to your settings.INSTALLED_APPS.
• Add django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware to your settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES (if it is not already there, make sure it comes before the CommonMiddleware).

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