Django snippets

"""
views.py
"""

from django.views.generic.base import View
from django.template.response import TemplateResponse
from django.template.base import TemplateDoesNotExist
from django.http import Http404

class PageView(View):
    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        slug = kwargs['slug']
        # Fallback to search a index page if url ends with '/'
        slug = '%sindex' % slug if slug.endswith('/') else slug
        template = 'pages/%s.html' % slug
        response = TemplateResponse(request, template, {})

        # test if the template exists before the common middleware
        # try to automatically render the response
        try:
            response.resolve_template(template)
        except TemplateDoesNotExist:
            raise Http404('Page "%s" is not found' % slug)

        return response

"""
urls.py
"""

from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
from project.pages import views

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^(?P<slug>.+)$', views.PageView.as_view()),
    url(r'^$', views.PageView.as_view(), {'slug':'welcome'}) # Easy to add aliases
)