Question

I am following the polls app tutorial part 3 and I cannot get the templates to be found

This is the exact error

polls/index.html
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://localhost:8000/polls/
Django Version: 1.4.3
Exception Type: TemplateDoesNotExist
Exception Value:    
polls/index.html
Exception Location: c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py in find_template, line 138
Python Executable:  c:\Python27\python.exe
Python Version: 2.7.2

So in my settings.py I have put the directory there. “C:/Scripts/mysite/template” and created /polls/index.html

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
    # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
    # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
    "C:/Scripts/template"
    "C:/Scripts/mysite/template"
)

It for some reason cannot find it though. Any ideas?
This is the exact instruction from the tutorial.

create a directory, somewhere on your filesystem, whose contents Django can access. (Django runs as whatever user your server runs.)

Answer 1

You’re missing a comma at the end of the first line:

"C:/Scripts/template",   # <--- HERE
"C:/Scripts/mysite/template"

without that, Python automatically concatenates the two strings (because they’re inside parens) so that it just becomes "C:/Scripts/templateC:/Scripts/mysite/template".