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+"Unit tests for reverse URL lookup"
+
+from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse_helper, NoReverseMatch
+import re
+
+test_data = (
+    ('^places/(\d+)/$', 'places/3/', [3], {}),
+    ('^places/(\d+)/$', 'places/3/', ['3'], {}),
+    ('^places/(\d+)/$', NoReverseMatch, ['a'], {}),
+    ('^places/(\d+)/$', NoReverseMatch, [], {}),
+    ('^places/(?P<id>\d+)/$', 'places/3/', [], {'id': 3}),
+    ('^people/(?P<name>\w+)/$', 'people/adrian/', ['adrian'], {}),
+    ('^people/(?P<name>\w+)/$', 'people/adrian/', [], {'name': 'adrian'}),
+    ('^people/(?P<name>\w+)/$', NoReverseMatch, ['name with spaces'], {}),
+    ('^people/(?P<name>\w+)/$', NoReverseMatch, [], {'name': 'name with spaces'}),
+    ('^people/(?P<name>\w+)/$', NoReverseMatch, [], {}),
+    ('^hardcoded/$', 'hardcoded/', [], {}),
+    ('^hardcoded/$', 'hardcoded/', ['any arg'], {}),
+    ('^hardcoded/$', 'hardcoded/', [], {'kwarg': 'foo'}),
+    ('^people/(?P<state>\w\w)/(?P<name>\w+)/$', 'people/il/adrian/', [], {'state': 'il', 'name': 'adrian'}),
+    ('^people/(?P<state>\w\w)/(?P<name>\d)/$', NoReverseMatch, [], {'state': 'il', 'name': 'adrian'}),
+    ('^people/(?P<state>\w\w)/(?P<name>\w+)/$', NoReverseMatch, [], {'state': 'il'}),
+    ('^people/(?P<state>\w\w)/(?P<name>\w+)/$', NoReverseMatch, [], {'name': 'adrian'}),
+    ('^people/(?P<state>\w\w)/(\w+)/$', NoReverseMatch, ['il'], {'name': 'adrian'}),
+    ('^people/(?P<state>\w\w)/(\w+)/$', 'people/il/adrian/', ['adrian'], {'state': 'il'}),
+)
+
+def run_tests(verbosity=0):
+    for regex, expected, args, kwargs in test_data:
+        passed = True
+        try:
+            got = reverse_helper(re.compile(regex), *args, **kwargs)
+        except NoReverseMatch, e:
+            if expected != NoReverseMatch:
+                passed, got = False, str(e)
+        else:
+            if got != expected:
+                passed, got = False, got
+        if passed and verbosity:
+            print "Passed: %s" % regex
+        elif not passed:
+            print "REVERSE LOOKUP FAILED: %s" % regex
+            print "   Got: %s" % got
+            print "   Expected: %r" % expected
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    run_tests(1)