Django lazily evals URL patterns so I thought the "include" function was broken

Little known things sometimes kick your ass and you'll need to call a friend.

Until today, I didn't realise that Django lazily evaluates it's URLs. I discovered this when the code me and my team were working on had a cascading URL include. So we had something like:

# main urls.py
urlpattern = [ 
   url(r'^path/', include('app1.urls'),
]

# 2nd url - app1's url.py
urlpattern = [
   url(r'^app1/', include('app1.subapp.urls'),
]

# 3rd url - subapp for app1 urls.py
urlpattern = [
   url(r'^subapp/$, actual_view.as_view()),
]

Problem started when I assumed that the full URL path will show in the debug page on the browser. I was looking for /path/app1/subapp/. I only saw the /path listing.

This is where I thought that Django was not registering the rest. It never dawned on me that by just doing "localhost:8000/path/" will allow me to see the rest of the URL pathing. Django just shows the same or next urls not the urls 2 levels in.

Thank you Eric (@riclags) for pointing out that fact. 

I'm a dumbass sometimes.