Django - How can view function see difference of the endpoint being hit , without any value stated in the url?

I'm fairly new to Django and here's my case.

If i have 3 endpoints that i can't modify, and i need to point them to one same View function such as :

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
...
    url(r'^a/', views.functionz.as_view(), name='a'),
    url(r'^b/', views.functionz.as_view(), name='b'),
    url(r'^c/', views.functionz.as_view(), name='c'),
...
]

If I'm restricted from changing the endpoints a/, b/, and c/ to something else that accepts parameters like xyz/a or xyz/b, how can my view function functionz identify the difference between them when it is being called?

Can I do something like this pseudocode?

views.py

Class XYZ(API View):
    def post(self, request, format=None):
        if request.endpoint == '/a/':
        # do things if and only if the client hits /a/

I don't know if mapping diffrent url patterns to same view is a good idea, but if you want to do that logic with in the post you probably can use the get_full_path to get the current path and parse the last the item.

Class XYZ(API View):
    def post(self, request, format=None):
        current_path = request.get_full_path().rsplit("/", 1)
        if current_path == 'a':
           # Do something
        if current_path == 'b':
           # Do something
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