get login url in code, rather than templates?

Is there a way to get the login URL that social auth uses to initial a login, for use in Python code rather than in some specific framework’s templating language?

Django’s template uses <a href="{% url "social:begin" "google-oauth2" %}">Google+</a> but it would be super useful (for third party, proxied logins) to be able to call that url("social:begin", "google-oauth2") with some kind of namespacing so that the url(...) function name doesn’t collide.

How/where can this function be imported/called from?

(And would it be possible to put this in the docs for future searcher-of-information?)

[omab]

reverse() is the opposite, you give it a view name and it will give you the path to it:

> from django.urls import reverse
> reverse("social:begin", args=["google-oauth2"])
u'/login/google-oauth2/'

[Pomax]

thanks. I didn’t use the right call with reverse() then!