Reputation: 30111

Need help with Django tutorial

I'm doing the Django tutorial here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/intro/tutorial03/

My TEMPLATE_DIRS in the settings.py looks like this:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (

    "/webapp2/templates/"
    "/webapp2/templates/polls"
    # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".

    # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.

    # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.

)

My urls.py looks like this:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *

from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^polls/$', 'polls.views.index'),
    (r'^polls/(?P<poll_id>\d+)/$', 'polls.views.detail'),
    (r'^polls/(?P<poll_id>\d+)/results/$', 'polls.views.results'),
    (r'^polls/(?P<poll_id>\d+)/vote/$', 'polls.views.vote'),
    (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

My views.py looks like this:

from django.template import Context, loader
from polls.models import Poll
from django.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):
    latest_poll_list = Poll.objects.all().order_by('-pub_date')[:5]
    t = loader.get_template('c:/webapp2/templates/polls/index.html')
    c = Context({
        'latest_poll_list': latest_poll_list,
    })
    return HttpResponse(t.render(c))

I think I am getting the path of my template wrong because when I simplify the views.py code to something like this, I am able to load the page.

from django.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):
    return HttpResponse("Hello, world. You're at the poll index.")

My index template file is located at C:/webapp2/templates/polls/index.html. What am I doing wrong?

This is the error I am getting:
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\servers\basehttp.py", line 280, in run
    self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response)

  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\servers\basehttp.py", line 674, in __call__
    return self.application(environ, start_response)

  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\wsgi.py", line 241, in __call__
    response = self.get_response(request)

  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 141, in get_response
    return self.handle_uncaught_exception(request, resolver, sys.exc_info())

  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 180, in handle_uncaught_exception
    return callback(request, **param_dict)

  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\decorators.py", line 76, in _wrapped_view
    response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)

  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\views\defaults.py", line 30, in server_error
    t = loader.get_template(template_name) # You need to create a 500.html template.

  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py", line 157, in get_template
    template, origin = find_template(template_name)

  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py", line 138, in find_template
    raise TemplateDoesNotExist(name)

TemplateDoesNotExist: 500.html

Upvotes: 1

Answers (3)

AndiDog

Reputation: 70148

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    "/webapp2/templates/"
    "/webapp2/templates/polls"
)

Python concatenates those strings during compilation if you don't put a comma in between.

And another thing: Usually you don't need to hardcode template directories. The following should be enough for most cases:

def fromRelativePath(*relativeComponents):
    return os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), *relativeComponents).replace("\\","/")

TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
    "django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader",
    "django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader",
)

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    fromRelativePath("templates"),
)

This will make Django search in "yoursite/templates" and in the "templates" directory of each intalled app.

Upvotes: 3