Django kind of overloaded views

How is this possible to make overloaded views in Django ? The problem is I have a view which may accept exactly one argument or none. If there is a argument, it will pass it to view.

Let show what I am tryin' to do

views.py

def member_list(request,message):
    memberList = Member.objects.all()
    return render_response(request, 'user/member_list.html', {'memberList': memberList,    'message':message })

def member_list(request,message):
    memberList = Member.objects.all()
    return render_response(request, 'user/member_list.html', {'memberList': memberList,    'message':message })

u开发者_StackOverflow社区rls.py

(r'^member/list/$', 'views.member_list'),
(r'^member/list/(?P<message>[-\w]+)/$', 'views.member_list'),

What is the right way to do this ?

Thanks

def member_list(request,message=None):
    if message:
        pass
    else:
        pass

You can use optional arguments in your view signature to your advantage here.

Simply define your view like this:

def member_list(request, message=None):

And then if there's a match in the URL, it'll get filled in. If not, it will still be None.

if message is None:
    # I got here via the '^member/list/$' URL regex
else:
    # I got here via the '^member/list/(?P<message>[-\w]+)/$' URL regex

(Adapted from this blog post)