Django named url RedirectView

gistfile1.py

# views.py

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

class NamedUrlRedirectView(RedirectView):
    def __init__(self, url, *args, **kwargs):
        self.url = reverse(url)
        super(NamedUrlRedirectView, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)


# in urls.py

(r'^blog/category/pictures/$', NamedUrlRedirectView().as_view(url='gallery-index'))

@eugena: It was added in Django 1.6, while when the gist was create, Django's current version was 1.4. Nowadays it's definitely the correct solution :)