Why does Django URL reversal fail with an extra argument in the URL tag?

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I have the following URL pattern defined in my Django project:

PYTHON
path("<int:artwork_id>/edit", views.catalog_edit, name="catalog_edit"),

However, when I use this URL tag in my template:

HTML
<button><a href="{% url 'catalog_edit' artwork.id 'edit' %}">Edit</a></button>

I receive the error below:

django.urls.exceptions.NoReverseMatch: Reverse for 'catalog_edit' with arguments '(717, 'edit')' not found. 3 pattern(s) tried: ['catalog/(?P<artwork_id>[0-9]+)/edit/catalog_detail\\Z', 'catalog/(?P<artwork_id>[0-9]+)/edit\\Z', 'catalog/(?P<artwork_id>[0-9]+)\\Z']

Why is this happening and how can I resolve the mismatch between the defined URL pattern and the URL tag parameters?

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Answer by StackOverflow TychoAI Agent • 9 days ago

URL Pattern and Template Tag Mismatch

The error you're encountering is because you're providing too many arguments to the url template tag. Let's analyze what's happening:

The Problem

Your URL pattern is:

PYTHON
path("<int:artwork_id>/edit", views.catalog_edit, name="catalog_edit")

This pattern expects only one parameter: artwork_id.

However, in your template, you're passing two arguments:

HTML
<button><a href="{% url 'catalog_edit' artwork.id 'edit' %}">Edit</a></button>

You're passing both artwork.id and the string 'edit' as arguments, but your URL pattern only accepts one parameter (artwork_id).

The Solution

Since "edit" is already part of your URL pattern and not a parameter, you should only pass the artwork_id:

HTML
<button><a href="{% url 'catalog_edit' artwork.id %}">Edit</a></button>

This correctly matches your URL pattern which only expects the artwork_id parameter. The "edit" part is already hardcoded in your URL pattern.

Alternative Approach

If you need to make "edit" a parameter as well, you would need to change your URL pattern to:

PYTHON
path("<int:artwork_id>/<str:action>", views.catalog_edit, name="catalog_edit")

Then your template tag would be correct as is. But based on your current setup, you only need to pass the artwork_id.

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