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Mastering Django: Core
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Mastering Django: Core

by Nigel George
December 2016
Beginner to intermediate
694 pages
14h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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Inside Template loading

Generally, you'll store templates in files on your filesystem rather than using the low-level Template API yourself. Save templates in a directory specified as a template directory. Django searches for template directories in a number of places, depending on your template loading settings (see Loader types below), but the most basic way of specifying template directories is by using the DIRS option.

The DIRS option

Tell Django what your template directories are by using the DIRS option in the TEMPLATES setting in your settings file-or the dirs argument of Engine. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your template directories:

TEMPLATES = [ { 'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates', ...
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