Django provides a convenient and powerful API for loading templates from the filesystem, with the goal of removing redundancy both in your template-loading calls and in your templates themselves. In order to use this template-loading API, first you'll need to tell the framework where you store your templates. The place to do this is in your settings file—the settings.py file that I mentioned last chapter, when I introduced the ROOT_URLCONF setting. If you're following along, open your settings.py and find the TEMPLATES setting. It's a list of configurations, one for each engine:

TEMPLATES = [ 
    { 
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates', 
        'DIRS': [], 
        'APP_DIRS': True, 
        'OPTIONS': { 
            # ... some options here ... 
        }, 
    }, 
] 

BACKEND is a dotted Python path to a template engine class implementing Django's template backend API. The built-in backends...