Thanks a lot for all your answers. It turned out that what I'd done above worked but in the template I was trying to load there was a typo. I had written: {% extends base.html %} instead of {% extends "base.html" %}
Anyway it was a good thing I posted my question so that I could get your ideas on better solutions. Thanks Simon On Oct 2, 8:33 pm, Carles Barrobés <car...@barrobes.com> wrote: > I sometimes use the direct_to_template generic view for adifferent > purpose than yours (test a template), but the same URL pattern might > be useful to you: > > # test a template > (r'^direct/(?P<template>.*)$', > 'django.views.generic.simple.direct_to_template'), > > Although you'd better use a better regex to match the template name > (like the one you originally used): > > (r'^(?P<template>[a-zA-Z0-9]*?\.html?)$', > 'django.views.generic.simple.direct_to_template') > > You might also want to take a look at the flatpages > app:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/flatpages/ > which may be an alternative approach to what you are trying to > achieve. > > C. > > On 1 Oct, 16:52, bruno desthuilliers <bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On 1 oct, 16:07, simon_saffer <simon.p.saf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > (snip) > > > My attempt at doing > > > > this was to put the following in > > >urls.py in urlpatterns > > > > (r'^(?P<page>[a-zA-Z0-9]*?\.html?)$', 'mysite.views.showPage') > > > hint : namedurlsare cool > > > > and then have a views.py in the mysite 'root' with the function > > > is 'mysite' an app in your project, or is it the project itself ? > > > > def showPage(request, page): > > > hint: Python coding conventions : use all_lower names for functions > > > > t = loader.get_template(page) > > > c = Context({}) > > > > return HttpResponse(t.render(c)) > > > hint : use the render_to_response() > > hint : use RequestContext if you want your context processors to be of > > any use > > > > How can I achieve something like this? > > > Hmmm... What happened with your above attempt exactly ? I guess it > > didn't yield the expected results, but you don't tell what happened > > exactly (and when I mean "exactly", it means that if you got a > > traceback you should post the _whole_ traceback too). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.