On Dec 2, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Vicky wrote:
>
> I did as you said. Still its giving the same error :(
Do you have the correct permissions on the TEMPLATE_DIRS directories?
Have you written the paths with forward slashes? That's all I can
think of.
E
>
>
>
> On Dec 2, 11:38 am, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 22:20 -0800, Vicky wrote:
>>> I tried the code below:
>>
>>> from django.template import loader, Context
>>
>>> def NewspaperSelect(request,u_id):
>>> t=loader.get_template(r'C:\django\noddler\news
>>> \template.vxml')
>>> c=Context({ 'topic':'news', 'content':pn })
>>> return HttpResponse(t.render(c), mimetype='application/xml')
>>
>>> I verified that the file is in the location. But when i compile it
>>> keeps telling that template file does not exist. What to do?
>>
>> get_template() doesn't take a full path to a file. It takes the
>> name of
>> a template, possibly with some directories in front -- but it's a
>> relative path. What the path is relative to depends on the template
>> loader being used. Unless you've done anything special to your setup,
>> Django will try the application loader first -- appending the path to
>> <app_name>/templates/ for each app_name that you have installed.
>> Then it
>> will try the filesystem loader, which will append the path to each
>> diretcory in the TEMPLATE_DIRS setting and see if it exists.
>>
>> So you either need to set up TEMPLATE_DIRS or put the templates in a
>> templates/ directory inside one (or more) of your applications.
>>
>> This ends up making the code very portable, by the way, since when
>> you
>> install it somewhere else, you only have to change the TEMPLATE_DIRS
>> settings (at most) and all your templates will still load correctly.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Malcolm
> >
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