How do I go straight to template, in Django's urls.py?
Django 2.0+
Use the class based generic views but register with the django 2.0+ pattern.
from django.urls import pathfrom django.views.generic import TemplateViewurlpatterns = [ path('foo/', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='foo.html'))]https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/class-based-views/base/#templateview
Django 1.5+
Use the class based generic views.
from django.views.generic import TemplateViewurlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^foo/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='foo.html')),)Django <= 1.4
urlpatterns = patterns('django.views.generic.simple', (r'^foo/$', 'direct_to_template', {'template': 'foo_index.html'}), (r'^foo/(?P<id>\d+)/$', 'direct_to_template', {'template': 'foo_detail.html'}),)
A further update for more recent versions and including mime type from this site:
http://www.techstricks.com/adding-robots-txt-to-your-django-project/
from django.conf.urls import urlfrom django.views.generic import TemplateViewurlpatterns = [ #... your project urls url(r'^robots.txt$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="robots.txt", content_type="text/plain"), name="robots_file")]