["python","django","url","get","url-parameters"]
How to get GET request values in Django?

I am currently defining regular expressions in order to capture parameters in a URL, as described in the tutorial. How do I access parameters from the URL as part the HttpRequest object? My HttpRequest.GET currently returns an empty QueryDict object. I'd like to learn how to do this without a library, so I can get to know Django better.
Give URL: domain/search/?q=haha use: request.GET.get('q', 'default'). q is the parameter, and 'default' is the default value if q isn't found. However, if you are instead just configuring your URLconf**, then your captures from the regex are passed to the function as arguments (or named arguments). Such as: (r'^user/(?P<username>\w{0,50})/$', views.profile_page,), Then in your views.py you would have def profile_page(request, username): # Rest of the method