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@@ -178,8 +178,8 @@ The URLconf doesn't look at the request method. In other words, all request
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methods -- ``POST``, ``GET``, ``HEAD``, etc. -- will be routed to the same
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function for the same URL.
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-Notes on capturing text in URLs
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+Captured arguments are always strings
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+=====================================
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Each captured argument is sent to the view as a plain Python string, regardless
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of what sort of match the regular expression makes. For example, in this
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@@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ URLconf line::
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...the ``year`` argument to ``news.views.year_archive()`` will be a string, not
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an integer, even though the ``\d{4}`` will only match integer strings.
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+Specifying defaults for view arguments
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+======================================
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A convenient trick is to specify default parameters for your views' arguments.
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Here's an example URLconf and view::
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