Re: Django Standalone Template

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.lisowski@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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