Django: using {{STATIC_URL}} from python side
As zzzirk says: Django really isn't about flat pages, so the most Djangonic solution is to put flat pages beside the django app, not within it.
Building a "history" system that serves static pages based on the date the user asks for. Not all dates have associated pages, and it isn't possible to know, based on what's in the database which do, which don't. I haven't been able to find a way to redirect to a static page because there doesn't seem to be any way to capture the value of the {{STATIC_URL}} tag on the python side. I have got some code that depends on the static file being on the same file system as the django server, but that is clearly wrong. I have two needs:
1: how can I (redirect?) to the static page(s) from my views.py file?
2: how can I query for the existence of a particular one of those static pages?