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How do I write a RESTful url regex in GAE / Python for n parameters?

I currently have three URL paths that show up in the ServiceHandler. How can I combine three into one neat regex that can pass n number of arguments to the ServiceHandler?

(r'/s/([^/]*)', ServiceHandler),
(r'/s/([^/]*)/([^/]*)', ServiceHandler),
(r'/s/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)', ServiceHandler)
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(r'^/s/(([^/]*)((/[^/]+)*))$', ServiceHandler)

Gotta do the trick to fit any number

/ s / foo / bar / baz / to / infinity / and / beyond /

You can also limit it to a range by doing something like

^/s/(([^/]*)((/[^/]+){0,2}))$


It will only match what you like

/s/foo/bar/baz
/s/foo/bar
/s/foo

but not

/s/foo/bar/baz/pirate
/s
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You can try something like

(r'/s/([^/]*)/?([^/]*)/?([^/]*)', ServiceHandler)



I think you will always get 3 ServiceHandler parameters, but those not used will be empty

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This should work for any number

(r'(?<!^)/([^/]+)', ServiceHandler)

Since I was looking at urlresolvers.py I can see that this does not work, although you can fix the correct behavior in urlresolvers.py by using regex.findall instead of re.search.

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