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