A Simple Python Regular Expression Problem in Google App Engine

Question

I am learning Google App Engine in Python.

Here is my problem:

I want the visitor to visit my website in the following format,

hxxp://www.example.com/wiki/A_Example_Title

The variable after /wiki/ only contains alphabets and underscore.

application = webapp.WSGIApplication([
    ('/wiki/??????', wikipage),

What should the ???? part be?

Thanks a lot!

I think (\w+) is a regular expression.bgporter's answer is absolutely what I need. Thank you 4 asking Falmarri. — DocWiki
– DocWiki, Commented Dec 6, 2010 at 17:36

bgporter · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-05 20:36:11Z

4

try one of these:

Your spec said 'alphabets and underscore' -- this one gets that and numbers as well:

r'/wiki/(\w+)'

...if you really don't want numbers in there, use this:

r'/wiki/([A-Za-z_]+)'

The characters captured by that regex will be passed as a parmeter to your wikipage get() handler.

answered Dec 5, 2010 at 20:36

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This is the answer I need! Kiss bgporter~~~