How to get the template path in the view django

Question

So I'm trying to get the template path in my view. Is there a dynamic way of doing this because at the moment I am hard-coding the path.

html = 'C:/Users/user/Desktop/project/src/templates/project.html'

Templates Path

TEMPLATES = [
   'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "templates")],
]

View

html = 'C:/Users/user/Desktop/project/src/templates/project.html'
open_html = open(html, 'r')
soup =  BeautifulSoup(open_html, "html5lib")
image = soup.find('img', {'name':'image_url'})
img_url = image.get('src')
open_html.close()

try this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3092865/django-view-load-template-from-calling-apps-dir-first — badiya, Jul 04 '17 at 02:24
The beauty of Django is that it will autodiscover your template files based on the folder structure - `app/templates/app/project.html`. — joshlsullivan, Jul 04 '17 at 02:50

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 04 '20 at 11:28

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If you load the template....

mytemplate = loader.get_template('myapp/templatename.html')

What you get in return is a Template object.

One of the members of this object is the origin attribute, which itself has an attribute called 'name'

templatepath = mytemplate.origin.name

This is the full path to the template file that the template loader discovered.

answered Sep 04 '20 at 11:28

Mars

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`from django.template import loader` is where loader comes from – run_the_race Feb 03 '22 at 10:29
Another comment, is this is quite slow because it parses the template too, not just find it. – run_the_race Mar 28 '23 at 06:42

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 04 '17 at 09:35

Try this. get template location from your project setting file.

from your_project_name.settings import BASE_DIR

path = os.path.join(BASE_DIR+'templates/', 'project.html')
open_html = open(path, 'r')
soup =  BeautifulSoup(open_html, "html5lib")
image = soup.find('img', {'name':'image_url'})
img_url = image.get('src')
open_html.close()

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 04 '17 at 02:47

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It's best to store your templates within your app. for example, if your app called polls your template should be at polls/templates/polls/

You can read more about it here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/intro/tutorial03/

answered Jul 04 '17 at 02:47

Rani

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