Templatedoesnotexist On Python App-engine Django 1.2 While Template Rendering Absolute Paths

Due to App Engine warning You are using the default Django version (0.96). The default Django version will change in an App Engine release in the near future. Please call use_libr

Solution 1:

I had some similar issues, with some fixes which I describe here:

App engine default Django version change

When you use app engine's template.render it sets the TEMPLATE_DIRS to the directory of the template you are rendering. The extends tag in Django 1.2 checks that the templates being included are inside the TEMPLATE_DIRS directory. If they are in a parent (or sibling) directory then it fails.

The solution to this that I found was to not use app engine's template.render, and instead write my own using Django's Template class. I then also had to set TEMPLATE_DIRS to the root of my project directory.

This is going from my memory of how it was in 1.4.2, when I first looked into this - the behaviour might have changed since (although my workarounds still work fine).