Dear Malcolm, Thanks for your reply. I put the full path:
<a href="file:///Users/caiyizhi/Dropbox/Programming/Django/genocad_prolog/prolog_compiler/bin/2009-04-28_12- 02-29_results.txt" target="_blank">Test</a><br/> And I click on the link, nothing comes out. I am wondering how to get this done. Thanks, Patrick Yizhi Cai, GBCB Ph.D Student Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Virginia Tech,Blacksburg, VA 24061 On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick < malc...@pointy-stick.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 12:24 -0400, Cai Yizhi wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am a new comer to Django. I want to create hyper link pointing to a > > local text file (say ~/a.txt). I am wondering how to do this in > > Django? > > > > I have tried: > > <a href="file:///~/a.txt" target="_blank">Download</a><br/> > > > > But it doesn't work. > > That's because "~" doesn't mean anything to the filesystem. It's a > special character that is interpreted by the shell (well, some shells; > not all) to mean the current user's home directory. You'll need to put > in the full path to the user's home directory. Look at things like the > standard Python module "pwd" if you need assistance doing that. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
