Multiple urls pointing to a single resource with no redundancy - url

Question

In django's urls.py I got this:
url(r'^main$', 'views.send_partial', name='main'),
url(r'^login$', 'views.send_partial', name='login'),
url(r'^signup$', 'views.send_partial', name='signup'),
url(r'^help$', 'views.send_partial', name='help'),
And I hate repeating code, so I would like to get rid of repeating the same function on and on for every url that should be handled by it. I can not find out how this is done anywhere. So what I am expecting is something like:
url('views.send_partial',
r'^main$', name='main,
r'^login$', name='login',
r'^signup$', name='signup',
r'^help$', name='help')
Ideas?

Answer 1

I have found nothing in the documentation (django.conf.urls), but I think it could be solved with a list/dict of patterns and names.
url_dict = {'main': 'r'^main$', 'login': r'^login$',
'signup': r'^signup$', 'help': r'^help$'}
# This part could also be put into a function taking the
# dictionary and the handler and returning urlpatterns
urls = []
for name, pattern in url_dict.items():
urls.append(url(pattern, 'views.send_partial', name=name))
urlpatterns = patterns('', *urls)
First you create a dictionary mapping the names to patterns (could also be something like a list of lists). Then you loop through the dictionary, creating a list of urlpatterns using url(). Finally you let them trough patterns() or do what else you was doing with them.