In django, when a URL is matched, the match group is passed as a second parameter to the view function, the first being a HttpRequest object. For example, with a URL patter like this

```
'/foo/(\d{2})/', 'app.views.handler'

```

the handler routine will have

```
def handler(request, value):

```

where value will contain a two digit number (as a string).

My question is: is value also contained in the request object, and if yes, how can I get it (of course, parsing the URL from the request object is not an option, too impractical).

Thanks