Adding template directory in django

Question

I just wanted to understand something about adding a templates folder in django. This is the code for including my templates folder, that django conveniently made for me:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    # This includes the templates folder
    os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', 'templates').replace('\\','/'),
)

What I do not understand is the part with 'templates' , why is it not '/templates' , or even \\\\templates in the case of something Unix based? I come here after reading this article , in particular the part about Template Loading .

Answer 1

os.path.join is building the absolute path based on the operating system being used.

Here, Django is computing the templates directory by getting the path. Here, windows would have included a \\\\ , hence the .replace

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