mike w

> In Python 3 default `str` is unicode and in Python2 it is bytes. I'm not sure if this is related or not. Yes, I believe this is the root...

In case it helps someone -- I saw this syndrome after I knowingly introduced a circular reference into `settings.py`. I suspect the rootcause is somewhere in the bowels of Django...

Taking a look at option 1, I've run into a small problem: Category is a Page, but Product is not. So Category has a "fully qualified" slug ("store/hardware") served by...

See above quick-and-dirty hack, which seems to work for my purposes..

Yes, I suppose it would, for any Page created within the `^store/` url path (and containing another slash). Not an issue in my case but I can certainly see how...

Here's a variation on the second bullet, which on balance doesn't seem very nasty: ac345f4187eb9041de72be1806f862fc4fc78f76. See the justification there.

(Bizarre that the commit hash auto-linked & renders within this repo rather than mine. I think this is a github bug, shot it over to support.)

Thanks for your thoughts! I appreciate the consideration. More inline. > you've basically shown that no matter which way we wrangle this, we're gonna end up with an ugly overall...

FYI: Not adding anything new to the discussion, but here's a consolidated change: 51e5f7db97880e382f0a095712c66f2bb8f518c3

No worries! I'm on vacation this week, take your time. Glad I at least have you intrigued :)