FAQ: Views - Updating URLs in Templates

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Updating URLs in Templates” exercise from the lesson “Views”.

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Build Python Web Apps with Django

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Hello,

I have a question about this lesson. This lesson provides the example:

urlpatterns = [
  path("books/", views.BookList.as_view(), name="booklist"),
  path("books/update/<pk>", views.BookUpdate.as_view(), name="bookupdate")
]

and then explains: " In the example above, we have a class-based view called BookList with the name attribute: "booklist" . When using class-based views, Django is smart enough to look into our template/ folder for an HTML file of the snake-case version of the same name (i.e book_list.html instead of BookList.html )."

Im confused about this explanation because I thought the name attribute is used to match a url pattern, and then finds the url path, and then renders the appropriate view.

Can someone explain the purpose of the name attribute in this lesson? Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance :slight_smile: