From 907580557053085578d8de0e1b7309e0e0ed8755 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Graham Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:57:46 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Refs #23276 -- Fixed explanation of how calling views works. "Importing the view" is no longer applicable after a9fd740d22bc4fed5fdb280c036618000ee13df1. --- docs/intro/overview.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/intro/overview.txt b/docs/intro/overview.txt index 1381892bb9b..b47f004d30b 100644 --- a/docs/intro/overview.txt +++ b/docs/intro/overview.txt @@ -209,9 +209,9 @@ matches the requested URL. (If none of them matches, Django calls a special-case 404 view.) This is blazingly fast, because the regular expressions are compiled at load time. -Once one of the regexes matches, Django imports and calls the given view, which -is a simple Python function. Each view gets passed a request object -- -which contains request metadata -- and the values captured in the regex. +Once one of the regexes matches, Django calls the given view, which is a Python +function. Each view gets passed a request object -- which contains request +metadata -- and the values captured in the regex. For example, if a user requested the URL "/articles/2005/05/39323/", Django would call the function ``news.views.article_detail(request,