Hello All,
I'm going through the tutorial on
djangoproject.com, and can't seem to
hurdle over this section that reads "Write views that actually do
something"
Here's the code I have so far, which is directly copied from the
tutorial or prescribed by the tutorial:
views.py:
"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('polls/index.html')
c = Context({
'latest_poll_list': latest_poll_list,
})
return HttpResponse(t.render(c))"
settings.py:
"...
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
# 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.
'C:/Python27/my_Djando_projects/mysite/My_Templates/admin/
base_site.html'
'C:/Python27/my_Djando_projects/mysite/My_Templates/admin/
index.html'
'C:/Python27/my_Djando_projects/mysite/My_Templates/polls/
index.html'
)
..."
index.html:
"{% if latest_poll_list %}
<ul>
{% for poll in latest_poll_list %}
<li><a href="/polls/{{
poll.id }}/">{{ poll.question }}</a></
li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
{% else %}
<p>No polls are available.</p>
{% endif %}
"
I keep getting the same error, which reads:
TemplateDoesNotExist at /polls/
polls/index.html
Request Method: GET
Request URL:
http://localhost:8000/polls/
Django Version: 1.3.1
Exception Type: TemplateDoesNotExist
Exception Value:
polls/index.html
Exception Location: C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template
\loader.py in find_template, line 138
Python Executable: C:\Python27\python.exe
Python Version: 2.7.2
Python Path:
['C:\\Python27\\my_Djando_projects\\mysite',
'C:\\Windows\\system32\\python27.zip',
'C:\\Python27\\DLLs',
'C:\\Python27\\lib',
'C:\\Python27\\lib\\plat-win',
'C:\\Python27\\lib\\lib-tk',
'C:\\Python27',
'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages']
Server time: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:32:54 -0800
Template-loader postmortem
Django tried loading these templates, in this order:
Using loader django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader:
c:\python27\my_djando_projects\mysite\my_templates\admin
\base_site.html
c:\python27\my_djando_projects\mysite\my_templates\admin\index.html
c:\python27\my_djando_projects\mysite\my_templates\polls\index.html
\polls\index.html (File does not exist)
Using loader django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader:
c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\templates\polls
\index.html (File does not exist)
What on earth am I doing wrong here? I've so many different variations
of my settings.py, views.py, and index.html. Any help would be much
appreciated.
Thanks,
SB