Spaces and special characters in URL - django

Question

My URL is as follows:

test/One%20**&**%20Two/edit

Django URLs:

r'^(?P<test>[\w\-]+)/(?P<text>[\w\s]+)/edit/$'

Can anyone tell me why Django is not able to display page? I see Page not found (404).

Answer 1

If you really need to capture all this garbage into the second group, just use:

^(?P<test>[\\w\\-]+)/(?P<text>.+)/edit/?$

... and I'm not even asking why you're willing to do so (: