Yeah. Tuples catch a lot of folks. Just because the empty tuple is
spelled () .
At the risk of telling you something that you already know:
The app_directories_ loader should pull this stuff in for you, so long as
django.contrib.admin is in INSTALLED_APPS. Usually TEMPLATE_DIRS
is used to include a "templates" directory in your project root.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Stefan Lisowski <s.lisow...@isti.com> wrote:
> On 10/31/2011 3:51 PM, Bill Freeman wrote:
>>
>> Try putting a comma at the end of the TEMPLATE_DIRS line.
>
> Hurrah, that did it. Thanks Mr. Freeman.
>
>> Parentheses do not the tuple make. It's the comma. An expression
>> surrounded by parentheses is just the expression, so you're trying to
>> use each letter of your setting as a directory, I believe.
>
> I assumed a single directory could be a case of a single element. Tuple
> lesson duly noted.
>
>> I take it you're not using the app directories loader?
>
> Not yet.
>
> - Stefan
>
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Stefan Lisowski<s.lisow...@isti.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/31/2011 2:49 PM, Bill Freeman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think that you have too many "admin"s. Try:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> TEMPLATE_DIRS=('C:/Python26/Lib/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates')
>>>
>>> Thanks for the suggestion. I don't see much difference on my system here
>>> though...
>>>
>>> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
>>> 8\VC>c:\Python26\python.exe
>>> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:46:32) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
>>> (Intel)]
>>> on
>>> win32
>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> import django.template
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> django.conf.settings.configure(TEMPLATE_DIRS=('C:/Python26/Lib/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates'),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
>>>>>>
>>>>>> loader.get_template("admin/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: admin/base.html
>>>
>>> Has anyone here used the template system successfully without using all
>>> of
>>> Django?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>>
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