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POMultiple URL segment in Flask and other Python frameowrks
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copied!<p>I'm building an application in both Bottle and Flask to see which I am more comfortable with as Django is too much 'batteries included'.</p> <p>I have read through the routing documentation of both, which is very clear and understandable but I am struggling to find a way of dealing with an unknown, possibly unlimited number of URL segments. ie:</p> <pre>http://www.example.com/seg1/seg2/seg3/seg4/seg5.....</pre> <p>I was looking at using something like <pre><code>@app.route(/< path:fullurl >)</code></pre> using regex to remove unwanted characters and splitting the fullurl string into a list the same length as the number of segments, but this seems incredibly inefficient.</p> <p>Most PHP frameworks seem to have a method of building an array of the segment variable names regardless of the number but neither Flask, Bottle or Django seem to have a similar option, I seem to need to specify an exact number of segments to capture variables. A couple of PHP cms's seem to collect the first 9 segments immediately as variables and anything any longer gets passed as a full path which is then broken down in the way I mentioned above.</p> <p>Am I not understanding the way things work in URL routing? Is the string splitting method really inefficient or the best way to do it? Or, is there a way of collecting an unknown number of segments straight into variables in Flask?</p> <p>I'm pretty new on Python frameworks so a five year olds explanation would help,</p> <p>many thanks.</p>

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