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Dynamically specify TEMPLATE_DIRS

Author:
ajs17
Posted:
February 28, 2007
Language:
Python
Version:
Pre .96
Tags:
configuration
Score:
-3 (after 3 ratings)

In your site’s settings.py module (in your site root), TEMPLATE_DIRS takes absolute paths. Here is a way to dynamically determine the absolute path to the application directory so you only have to specify relative paths within settings.py. Obviously, replace “application_directory” with the name of your application’s directory.

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import os
dirname = os.path.dirname(globals()["__file__"])
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(dirname, 'application_directory/templates'),
)

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whiskybar (on February 28, 2007):

I used to use the exact same code but then I discovered you can achieve the same by 

TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
    "django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source",
)
TEMPLATE_DIRS = ()

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