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PONewbie Django urls, views, and templates - how can this incredibly simple django project possibly be failing?
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copied!<p>When the user lands at <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8000/" rel="nofollow">http://127.0.0.1:8000/</a> I would like to display an html page that says "welcome." When the user goes <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8000/time/" rel="nofollow">http://127.0.0.1:8000/time/</a> I would like to display the current time. I have followed instructions to the t and dotted every i. My settings are below. Why do I continue to get a TemplateDoesNotExist error?</p> <pre><code>views.py from django.template.loader import get_template from django.shortcuts import render import datetime def current_datetime(request): now = datetime.datetime.now() current_datetime_template = get_template('current_datetime.html') context_dict = {'current_date': now} return render(request, current_datetime_template, context_dict) def welcome(request): welcome_template = get_template('welcome.html') context_dict = {'username' : 'Sally Jenkins'} return render(request, welcome_template, context_dict) </code></pre> <hr> <pre><code>urls.py from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, include, url from simpletest.views import welcome, current_datetime urlpatterns = patterns('', url(r'^time/$', current_datetime), url(r'^$', welcome), ) </code></pre> <hr> <pre><code>settings.py ... # all defaults ommitted here - I changed nothing. TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'templates').replace('\\','/'), ) </code></pre> <p>In my django project directory I have a directory called <code>templates</code> and it contains <code>base.html</code>, <code>current_datetime.html</code>, and <code>welcome.html</code> just as expected.</p> <p>Please tell me what I have overlooked.</p> <p>Thanks.</p> <p>MORE INFO:</p> <p>I am using virtualenv. Does the fact that I have two django projects in the <code>/Users/quanda/dev/django-projects/</code> make any difference? I can't imagine it would. One is called "blossom" and is the main project I am working on. The other is called "simpletest" and I made it extremely simple so that I could isolate the issue I was having in my blossom project. I am using the same virtual environment for both projects. Running <code>tree -L 2</code> from django-projects/ gives the following structure:</p> <pre><code>. ├── Procfile ├── blossom │ ├── __init__.py │ ├── __init__.pyc │ ├── fixtures │ ├── manage.py │ ├── onora │ ├── settings.py │ ├── settings.pyc │ ├── sqlite3-database │ ├── templates │ ├── test_stuff.py │ ├── urls.py │ ├── urls.pyc │ ├── views.py │ └── views.pyc ├── requirements.txt ├── simpletest │ ├── __init__.py │ ├── __init__.pyc │ ├── manage.py │ ├── settings.py │ ├── settings.pyc │ ├── templates │ ├── urls.py │ ├── urls.pyc │ ├── views.py │ └── views.pyc └── virtual_environment ├── bin ├── django-registration-0.8-alpha-1.tar ├── include └── lib </code></pre>

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