Cannot Open Text File To Read Into Django Html

Question

I have followed many of the answers provided here but I still cannot open the file.

I have an text file that I would like to render on my home.html. I rewrote my views.py as suggested:

def homepage_view(request):
    module_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
    file_path = os.path.join(module_dir, 'my_text.txt')
    data_file = open(file_path, 'r')
    data = data_file.read()
    context = {'intro' : data}
    return render(request, 'home.html', context)

Here is my home.html. The html includes: from . import forms, from . import views:

<div class="intro">
    {% block intro %}
        {{block.super }}
        {{intro}}
    {% endblock %}
</div>

My app/urls.py is:

from page import views

app_name = 'page'

urlpatterns = [

    path('home/', views.homepage_view, name='homepage_view'),
    path('upload/', views.csvUpload, name='csv_upload'),
    path('zip/', views.zipUser_view, name = 'zipUser_view'),
    path('results/', views.results_view, name='results_view'),
    path('ky_outline/', views.display_ky_image, name = 'ky_image'),

]

My structure is:

myproject/
    __pycache__
    __init__.py
    settings.py
    urls.py
    wsgi.py
        my/app ('page')
            __pycache__
            migrations
            static
                page
                    css
                        style.css
                     images
                     media
                         my_text.txt

static and media settings are:

STATIC_URL = '/static/'


STATICFILES_DIR = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),

]

STATIC_ROOT = [],

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

What am I missing or have I looked at this too long?

Based on your configurations for handling static files, why your static directory is under your app directory? Shouldn't it be beside the settings.py? — Pedram
– Pedram, Commented Dec 16, 2019 at 1:54

yorozuya3 · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-09 11:45:53Z

1

In views, try to put the path manually instead of use os, if it's work then is problem of how you give the path to open()

answered Jan 9, 2020 at 11:45

yorozuya3

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