Internationalization: In URL patterns

Django provides two mechanisms to internationalize URL patterns:

• Adding the language prefix to the root of the URL patterns to make it possible for LocaleMiddleware to detect the language to activate from the requested URL.

• Making URL patterns themselves translatable via the django.utils.translation.ugettext_lazy() function.

Using either one of these features requires that an active language be set for each request; in other words, you need to have django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware in your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting.

Language prefix in URL patterns

This function can be used in your root URLconf and Django will automatically prepend the current active language code to all URL patterns defined within i18n_patterns(). Example URL patterns:

from django.conf.urls import include, url 
from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns 
from about import views as about_views 
from news import views as news_views 
from sitemap.views import...