Thanks a lot for all your answers.
It turned out that what I'd done above worked but in the template I
was trying to load there was a typo. I had written:
{% extends base.html %} instead of {% extends "base.html" %}
Anyway it was a good thing I posted my question so that I could get
your ideas on better solutions.
Thanks
Simon
On Oct 2, 8:33 pm, Carles Barrobés wrote:
> I sometimes use the direct_to_template generic view for adifferent
> purpose than yours (test a template), but the same URL pattern might
> be useful to you:
>
> # test a template
> (r'^direct/(?P.*)$',
> 'django.views.generic.simple.direct_to_template'),
>
> Although you'd better use a better regex to match the template name
> (like the one you originally used):
>
> (r'^(?P[a-zA-Z0-9]*?\.html?)$',
> 'django.views.generic.simple.direct_to_template')
>
> You might also want to take a look at the flatpages
> app:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/flatpages/
> which may be an alternative approach to what you are trying to
> achieve.
>
> C.
>
> On 1 Oct, 16:52, bruno desthuilliers
> wrote:
>
> > On 1 oct, 16:07, simon_saffer wrote:
> > (snip)
>
> > My attempt at doing
>
> > > this was to put the following in
> > >urls.py in urlpatterns
>
> > > (r'^(?P[a-zA-Z0-9]*?\.html?)$', 'mysite.views.showPage')
>
> > hint : namedurlsare cool
>
> > > and then have a views.py in the mysite 'root' with the function
>
> > is 'mysite' an app in your project, or is it the project itself ?
>
> > > def showPage(request, page):
>
> > hint: Python coding conventions : use all_lower names for functions
>
> > > t = loader.get_template(page)
> > > c = Context({})
>
> > > return HttpResponse(t.render(c))
>
> > hint : use the render_to_response()
> > hint : use RequestContext if you want your context processors to be of
> > any use
>
> > > How can I achieve something like this?
>
> > Hmmm... What happened with your above attempt exactly ? I guess it
> > didn't yield the expected results, but you don't tell what happened
> > exactly (and when I mean "exactly", it means that if you got a
> > traceback you should post the _whole_ traceback too).
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