Thanks all for the help. I ran across a reference which stated that I should restart the django server inorder for the package to be pickup. This works.
On Apr 26, 12:21 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 06:09 -0700, tekion wrote: > > Hi, > > I have tried to load my customer filter, but getting an error which > > indicates it's not in the path. I saw a similar post, one of the > > suggested things to check was to make sure the project was listed in > > the setting.py file. My project is listed in the setting.py file > > under the install_app. Any idea why? Thanks in advance. > > Just so that you use the normal terminology in the future: when you > wrote "project" above, we call them "applications" in Django. A Django > "project" is a collection of applications, a settings file and a root > URL configuration file. The things in the INSTALLED_APPS list are > applications. > > Onto your actual problem: The other two reasonably common mistakes, > besides not having the tag inside an application, are > > (1) Not putting it inside a templatetags/ directory inside the > application directory (or misspelling "templatetags", which is > surprisingly easy to typo). > > (2) Not having an __init__.py file inside the templatetags directory. > > As a simple check for syntax errors and the like, if you've done both of > those things and your directory structure looks something like this: > > my_app/ > __init__.py > templatetags/ > __init__.py > my_filters.py > ... > > ... try starting up the "manage.py shell" interactive shell and > importing the filter manually. That is: > > >>> from my_app.templatetags import my_filters > > If that doesn't raise an exception, you've at least avoided making any > egregious errors in the basic setup. > > If you've done all that and it still fails to work, please construct a > small example so that you can show us a few more details. It would be > interesting to see a small template that attempts to use the filter, the > directory structure layout you have and the filter file (if the latter > is 1000's of lines long, trim it down to a simple filter that just > returns the string "hello" to make things shorter). > > Regards, > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
