Templates with startproject or startapp do not render project_directory or app_directory correctly

[gw.2012@…]

The documentation at ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/#django-admin-startproject states that template files may contain the tag project_directory that should contain the full path of the newly created project. Similarly with startapp and app_directory.

This is not exactly true in case you are specifying the destination directory yourself. The project_directory variable gets exactly the value specified as the parameter and in case of relative paths (or even ".") it is not *a full path* of the newly created project.

Either the documentation should be changed (although the behavour is then inconsistent) or a full path resolving functionality implemented. Maybe it could also be implemented as a full path relative to a virtualenv or other environment it is contained in.

[Preston Holmes]

​https://github.com/django/django/pull/127

In addition to fixing this issue with the path the patch also:

tests other context variables
adds a clearer error if the target does not exist, currently this results in an IOError when trying to read the render a file out to non-existant location

I'm not sure though whether the target shouldn't just be created if it doesn't exist?

[Jannis Leidel]

In [17773]:

Fixed #17920 -- Actually pass the full path of a newly created project or app in the template context as mentioned in the startproject docs. Many thanks to Preston Holmes for the initial patch.