Documentation : Customize the admin look and feel

[AbelardoLG]

To Customizing your project’s templates, you wrote this line:

TEMPLATES = [ {

'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [BASE_DIR / 'templates'],

...

When I saved this modification, the server showed the attached log.

[AbelardoLG]

Python's server outputs a log about this error

[Carlton Gibson]

This looks like BASE_DIR is a string, when you can only use / with Path objects.

Either use a Path object or os.path.join() to join (string) path segments correctly. (You can concatenate with + '/' + like normal strings, but that not OS independent, and likely error prone.)

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[Carlton Gibson]

The instructions should work is you're using a project created with the same version of Django as the docs you're reading.

The tutorial was updated in 26554cf5d1e96db10d0d5f4b69683a22fb82fdf8 which will be/was in 3.1 — in general full pathlib support isn't available until then. See #29983.