# Wrapper for loading templates from the filesystem. from django.conf import settings from django.template import TemplateDoesNotExist import os def get_template_sources(template_name, template_dirs=None): if not template_dirs: template_dirs = settings.TEMPLATE_DIRS for template_dir in template_dirs: yield os.path.join(template_dir, template_name) def load_template_source(template_name, template_dirs=None): tried = [] for filepath in get_template_sources(template_name, template_dirs): try: return (open(filepath).read(), filepath) except IOError: tried.append(filepath) if tried: error_msg = "Tried %s" % tried else: error_msg = "Your TEMPLATE_DIRS setting is empty. Change it to point to at least one template directory." raise TemplateDoesNotExist, error_msg load_template_source.is_usable = True