How to dynamically select template directory to be used in flask?

Question

By default flask uses template files stored in "template" directory :

/flaskapp     /application.py     /templates         /hello.html 

Is there any way to dynamically choose template directory according to user logged in? This is how I want the directory structure to be :

/flaskapp     /application.py     /templates (default template goes here)         /hello.html     /userdata         /user1             /template1                  hello.html             /template2                  hello.html         /user2             /template1                  hello.html             /template2                  hello.html 

Now if I have the username of logged in user and the name of template activated by user, is it possible to dynamically select the directory to load template files? For example,

/userdata/<username>/<activated template name>/ 

instead of fixed

/templates/ 

What I am trying to achieve is a wordpress like theme system for my web application where users can upload/select themes for his website.

Answer 1

You can pass the Flask constructor a "template_folder" argument.

Like so...

Flask(__name__, template_folder="wherever") 

Here's the documentation: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/api/