from django.conf.urls import include, url common_url_patterns = ([ url(r'^app-ns1/', include([])), url(r'^app-url/', include([])), ], 'common') nested_url_patterns = ([ url(r'^common/', include(common_url_patterns, namespace='nested')), ], 'nested') urlpatterns = [ url(r'^app-ns1-0/', include(common_url_patterns, namespace='app-include-1')), url(r'^app-ns1-1/', include(common_url_patterns, namespace='app-include-2')), # 'nested' is included twice but namespaced by nested-1 and nested-2. url(r'^app-ns1-2/', include(nested_url_patterns, namespace='nested-1')), url(r'^app-ns1-3/', include(nested_url_patterns, namespace='nested-2')), ]