CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythondjango
toothie
toothie

Reputation: 1029

Django settings module and relative paths

Below is a part of my directory structure. I am keeping settings in a separate folder for keeping them different for produvtion and development. 

DjangoApp
  templates/
    base.html
  OtherApp/
  DjangoApp/
   manage.py
   __init__.py
   settings/
    __init__.py
    base.py
    local.py
    test.py
    production.py

Below are the template settings in my base.py setting file.

import os
PROJECT_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
  os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'templates'),
)

It searches for the templates directory inside the settings folder. How to resolve this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 413

Answers (1)

falsetru
falsetru

Reputation: 369144

Call dirname three times:

import os
dirname = os.path.dirname
PROJECT_PATH = dirname(dirname(dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
  os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'templates'),
)
  • dirname(...): ../DjangoApp/DjangoApp/settings
  • dirname(dirname(...)): ../DjangoApp/DjangoApp
  • dirname(dirname(dirname(...))): ../DjangoApp

Upvotes: 2

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