Re: Django Standalone Template

On 10/31/2011 3:51 PM, Bill Freeman wrote:
> Try putting a comma at the end of the TEMPLATE_DIRS line.

Hurrah, that did it. Thanks Mr. Freeman.

> Parentheses do not the tuple make. It's the comma. An expression
> surrounded by parentheses is just the expression, so you're trying to
> use each letter of your setting as a directory, I believe.

I assumed a single directory could be a case of a single element. Tuple
lesson duly noted.

> I take it you're not using the app directories loader?

Not yet.

- Stefan

> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Stefan Lisowski<s.lisowski@isti.com> wrote:
>> On 10/31/2011 2:49 PM, Bill Freeman wrote:
>>> I think that you have too many "admin"s. Try:
>>>
>>>
>>> TEMPLATE_DIRS=('C:/Python26/Lib/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates')
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion. I don't see much difference on my system here
>> though...
>>
>> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC>c:\Python26\python.exe
>> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:46:32) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
>> on
>> win32
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> import django.template
>>>>>
>>>>> django.conf.settings.configure(TEMPLATE_DIRS=('C:/Python26/Lib/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates'),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
>>>>> loader.get_template("admin/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: admin/base.html
>>
>> Has anyone here used the template system successfully without using all of
>> Django?
>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Stefan Lisowski<s.lisowski@isti.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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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