I think that you have too many "admin"s. Try: TEMPLATE_DIRS=('C:/Python26/Lib/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates')
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Stefan Lisowski <s.lisow...@isti.com> wrote: > I appreciate the reply SmileyChris - > > On 10/30/2011 12:41 PM, SmileyChris wrote: >> >> Take a read through this section of the docs: >> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/templates/api/#loading-templates > > Yes, that's what I was reading. > >> Specifically, those templates are found via the app_directories.Loader. >> So you'd run loader.get_template('admin/base.html') to get that >> template. The reason that it's in a subdirectory is to avoid conflicts >> with other applications (since they may want to use their own >> 'base.html' template. > > So, my setting TEMPLATE_DIRS here to the actual subdirectory would not work? > > TEMPLATE_DIRS=('C:/Python26/Lib/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin') > > I used this as an example to point to some templates that are known to work, > rather than point to my own templates that don't work either. If I go into > the Django code and print out the directory that's being searched, I see the > correct directory there, so I don't know why things are failing. Maybe I'm > just not instantiating things correctly? > > In any case, I tried your suggestion, but still no luck: > >>>> loader.get_template('admin/base.html') > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "django/template/loader.py", line 164, in get_template > template, origin = find_template(template_name) > File "django/template/loader.py", line 145, in find_template > raise TemplateDoesNotExist(name) > django.template.base.TemplateDoesNotExist: admin/base.html > > (I also tried without manually setting TEMPLATE_DIRS, but just ran > django.conf.settings.configure(), still to no avail.) > > Anyone, any ideas? I'm completely new to Django, but I've not been working > in Python lately either, so it could just be a Python mistake on my part. > > - Stefan > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Django Standalone Template > Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:54:20 -0700 (PDT) > From: Stefan Lisowski <s.lisow...@isti.com> > Reply-To: django-users@googlegroups.com > To: Django users <django-users@googlegroups.com> > > Hi Django folks - > > I'm new to Django, and I just want to use the template system now, > independent of the rest of Django. But I can't get it to see a > template. Even the system templates as was suggested when I started > Googling for my error. > >>>> import django.template >>>> >>>> django.conf.settings.configure(TEMPLATE_DIRS=('C:/Python26/Lib/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin'),TEMPLATE_DEBUG=True, >>>> DEBUG=True) >>>> import django.template.loader as loader >>>> loader.get_template("base.html") > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py", line > 157, in get_template > template, origin = find_template(template_name) > File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py", line > 138, in find_template > raise TemplateDoesNotExist(name) > django.template.base.TemplateDoesNotExist: base.html >>>> >>>> exit() > > C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC>ls C:/Python26/Lib/ > site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin | grep base > base.html > base_site.html > > Any ideas? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.