Re: Frustration on TEMPLATE_DIRS

2007-05-26 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On 5/26/07, itsnotvalid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't imagine if there is a need to fix > that path on every machine if a given project (like a blog engine) be > distributed to different server located in different path. I'd change the settings file in that case. :)

Re: Frustration on TEMPLATE_DIRS

2007-05-26 Thread itsnotvalid
Actually in the meantime i figured out that using os.path.abspath('templates') would do the job, elegant as it should be. And it is platform independent. For the P.S. bit, I got the idea from djangoproject.com's SVN where they have templates and the rest put together in the same branch. I

Re: Frustration on TEMPLATE_DIRS

2007-05-26 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On 5/26/07, itsnotvalid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > As usual, it doesn't work, and in the comments section somebody > suggested using os.path.dirname(__file__) instead. Hmm. If you have other complaints about docs, please point out places that need improvement. > However I am using >

Frustration on TEMPLATE_DIRS

2007-05-26 Thread itsnotvalid
I am a new user of Django (as well as Python) that finding the tricks on TEMPLATE_DIRS very frustrating. Here is the method of using relative path as written in Django Book: import os.path TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( os.path.join(os.path.basename(__file__), 'templates'), ) As usual, it doesn't