urls.py regex about stumpy HOT 5 CLOSED

@sublevo you have a good regex idea for this... i guess it's really moot anyway

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@mutaku doesn't admin have to be admin/? If so then you don't have to worry since the / isn't a valid character in base62. Also can't you just special case those terms in your calls to base62 couldn't you? Like blacklist those names and have it increment one and call it again if that is returned?

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@sublevo doesn't matter really since django appends slashes anyway. this could be turned off but it's a great feature to have as it saves a lot of headaches when dealing with all the other aspects of urls and kinda unifies everything.
so then you are left with the part before slash which is same as a prospective shortened url. I think there isn't really an easy way around it that i can think of atm moment other than putting the /admin /register etc regexp filters above (so looked at first) in the filter list. This is fine. The problem arises when you would submit link number 150947331 which that id translates to admin in base62. So you see it's still a theoretical and programmatic problem but one that isn't really reasonable for a small DIY project like this.

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@sublevo so yeah... if we look at urls.py here would be the scenarios (decoding the named directory style redirects):
`>>> import shortener.base62 as b

b.Decode('login').num
316085571
b.Decode('admin').num
150947331
b.Decode('accounts').num
35909104355214L
`

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closed for sanity.

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