Error when using django.template

Question

I'm a beginner in django and I got a lot of errors when using template module from django. The following works from the python shell:

from django import template
t = template.Template('My name is {{ name }}.')

When i use this code , i get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/base.py", line 123, in __init__
 if settings.TEMPLATE_DEBUG and origin is None:
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 53, in __getattr__
self._setup(name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 46, in _setup
% (desc, ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE))
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting TEMPLATE_DEBUG,but        
settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable 
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

Dose anyone have an idea about this error?

Answer 1

You can't access and run django projects from python shell. Django doesn't know what project you want to work on.

You have to do one of these things:

1. python manage.py shell
2. Set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable in your OS to mysite.settings
3. Use setup_environ in the python interpreter:
   from django.core.management import setup_environ
   from mysite import settings
   setup_environ(settings)

The first one is easiest and best method. Run your code in the django shell.

Answer 2

If you want to use the template system without the django shell, you can do:

from django.conf import settings
settings.configure()

and after this your code

t = template.Template('My name is {{ name }}.')