[Answered ]-Why is this django url regex eating all of the urls below it?

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You need to additionally check for the beginning of the string (^):

url(r'^(?P<pagename>\w)/$', views.show_page, name='page'),
url(r'^(?P<pagename>\w)/info/$', views.show_info, name='info'),

Without it (?P<pagename>\w)/$ regex would catch both some-page-name/ and some-page-name/info/ urls, since it is checking for a single alphanumeric character, a slash and an end of the string:

>>> re.search(r'(?P<pagename>\w)/$', 'p/').group(1)
'p'
>>> re.search(r'(?P<pagename>\w)/$', 'p/info/').group(1)
'o'
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