Django Reverse Inverse

Question

Is there an inverse method for Django's django.core.urlresolvers.reverse()?

I want a function f(x) such that f(django.core.urlresolvers.reverse('shadowfax')) == 'shadowfax'.

Does anybody have anything to say on whether this would be a proper approach to writing unit tests for methods that call .reverse()?

Answer 1

Probably shocking:

django.core.urlresolvers.resolve( "/test" ).url_name

It is perfectly good way to use it and it is even recommend in the documentation:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/urlresolvers/