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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

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', 
        'DIRS': [ 
            '/home/html/templates/lawrence.com', 
            '/home/html/templates/default', 
        ], 
    }, 
] 

Your templates can go anywhere you want, as...