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20480	Change to django tutorial docs	cspears2002@…	nobody	"Hi,

I was wondering if we can update the documentation here.

[https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial02/#customize-the-admin-look-and-feel]

Specifically, I am concerned about the part of the documentation that reads as follows:

Open your settings file (mysite/settings.py, remember) and add a TEMPLATE_DIRS setting:

{{{
TEMPLATE_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]
}}}

TEMPLATE_DIRS is an iterable of filesystem directories to check when loading Django templates; it’s a search path.

If I just add the line:

{{{
TEMPLATE_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]
}}}

to the settings.py file, then I will get an error message.

The code that needs to get added to the settings.py file should like something like this:


{{{
import os.path

BASE_DIR = 'C:\Users\Chris\Documents\django_dev\mysite'
TEMPLATE_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]
}}}
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