Adding template directory in django

Question

I just wanted to understand something about adding a templates folder in django. This is the code for including my templates folder, that django conveniently made for me:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    # This includes the templates folder
    os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', 'templates').replace('\\','/'),
)

What I do not understand is the part with 'templates', why is it not '/templates', or even \\templates in the case of something Unix based? I come here after reading this article, in particular the part about Template Loading.

karthikr · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-04 20:54:25Z

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os.path.join is building the absolute path based on the operating system being used.

Here, Django is computing the templates directory by getting the path. Here, windows would have included a \\, hence the .replace

You can read more about it here

edited Apr 4, 2013 at 20:54

answered Apr 4, 2013 at 20:42

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Nafiul Islam Over a year ago

So, its pretty much the same path that I would just type into cmd?

karthikr Over a year ago

Pretty much - yes. Just that an inbuilt python library is being used for the join

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