Redirect to named url pattern directly from urls.py in django?

This works for me.

from django.views.generic import RedirectView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^some-page/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/')),
    ...

In above example '/' means it will redirect to index page, where you can add any url patterns also.

If you are on Django 1.4 or 1.5, you can do this:

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse_lazy
from django.views.generic import RedirectView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^some-page/$', RedirectView.as_view(url=reverse_lazy('my_named_pattern'), permanent=False)),
    ...

If you are on Django 1.6 or above, you can do this:

from django.views.generic import RedirectView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^some-page/$', RedirectView.as_view(pattern_name='my_named_pattern', permanent=False)),
    ...

In Django 1.9, the default value of permanent has changed from True to False. Because of this, if you don't specify the permanent keyword argument, you may see this warning:

RemovedInDjango19Warning: Default value of 'RedirectView.permanent' will change from True to False in Django 1.9. Set an explicit value to silence this warning.

This way is supported in older versions of django if you cannot support RedirectView

In view.py

def url_redirect(request):
    return HttpResponseRedirect("/new_url/")

In the url.py

url(r'^old_url/$', "website.views.url_redirect", name="url-redirect"),

You can make it permanent by using HttpResponsePermanentRedirect

for django v2+

from django.contrib import admin
from django.shortcuts import redirect
from django.urls import path, include


urlpatterns = [
    # this example uses named URL 'hola-home' from app named hola
    # for more redirect's usage options: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/http/shortcuts/
    path('', lambda request: redirect('hola/', permanent=False)),
    path('hola/', include("hola.urls")),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]