Thank you everyone for your very insightful and helps remarks. I had 2
issues with my code:
1) I didn't properly separate my directory strings with commas and
2) I need to code the directory structure, and the absolute path to the
file itself.
Here is the correct code from within settings.py:
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
# Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or
"C:/www/django/templates".
# Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
# Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
'C:/Python27/my_Djando_
projects/mysite/My_Templates/admin/base_site.html',
'C:/Python27/my_Djando_projects/mysite/My_Templates/admin/index.html',
'C:/Python27/my_Djando_projects/mysite/My_Templates/',
)
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Python_Junkie <software.buy.des...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 2:46:11 PM UTC-5, Django_for_SB wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I'm going through the tutorial on djangoproject.com, and can't seem to
>> hurdle over this section that reads "Write views that actually do
>> something"
>>
>> Here's the code I have so far, which is directly copied from the
>> tutorial or prescribed by the tutorial:
>>
>> views.py:
>> "from django.template import Context, loader
>> from polls.models import Poll
>> from django.http import HttpResponse
>>
>> def index(request):
>> latest_poll_list = Poll.objects.all().order_by('-**pub_date')[:5]
>> t = loader.get_template('polls/**index.html')
>> c = Context({
>> 'latest_poll_list': latest_poll_list,
>> })
>> return HttpResponse(t.render(c))"
>>
>>
>>
>> settings.py:
>> "...
>> TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
>> # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/
>> django/templates".
>> # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
>> # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
>> 'C:/Python27/my_Djando_**projects/mysite/My_Templates/**admin/
>> base_site.html'
>> 'C:/Python27/my_Djando_**projects/mysite/My_Templates/**admin/
>> index.html'
>> 'C:/Python27/my_Djando_**projects/mysite/My_Templates/**polls/
>> index.html'
>> )
>> ..."
>>
>>
>> index.html:
>> "{% if latest_poll_list %}
>> <ul>
>> {% for poll in latest_poll_list %}
>> <li><a href="/polls/{{ poll.id }}/">{{ poll.question }}</a></
>> li>
>> {% endfor %}
>> </ul>
>> {% else %}
>> <p>No polls are available.</p>
>> {% endif %}
>> "
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I keep getting the same error, which reads:
>>
>>
>> TemplateDoesNotExist at /polls/
>>
>> polls/index.html
>>
>> Request Method: GET
>> Request URL: http://localhost:8000/polls/
>> Django Version: 1.3.1
>> Exception Type: TemplateDoesNotExist
>> Exception Value:
>>
>> polls/index.html
>>
>> Exception Location: C:\Python27\lib\site-**packages\django\template
>>
>> \loader.py in find_template, line 138
>> Python Executable: C:\Python27\python.exe
>> Python Version: 2.7.2
>> Python Path:
>>
>> ['C:\\Python27\\my_Djando_**projects\\mysite',
>> 'C:\\Windows\\system32\\**python27.zip',
>> 'C:\\Python27\\DLLs',
>> 'C:\\Python27\\lib',
>> 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\plat-win'**,
>> 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\lib-tk',
>> 'C:\\Python27',
>> 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-**packages']
>>
>> Server time: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:32:54 -0800
>> Template-loader postmortem
>>
>> Django tried loading these templates, in this order:
>>
>> Using loader django.template.loaders.**filesystem.Loader:
>> c:\python27\my_djando_**projects\mysite\my_templates\**admin
>> \base_site.html
>> c:\python27\my_djando_**projects\mysite\my_templates\**admin\index.html
>> c:\python27\my_djando_**projects\mysite\my_templates\**polls\index.html
>> \polls\index.html (File does not exist)
>> Using loader django.template.loaders.app_**directories.Loader:
>> c:\python27\lib\site-packages\**django\contrib\admin\**templates\polls
>> \index.html (File does not exist)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> What on earth am I doing wrong here? I've so many different variations
>> of my settings.py, views.py, and index.html. Any help would be much
>> appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> SB
>>
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