Using gravatar in django

Question

i'm willing to use gravatars in my django app. In the application cw i created a templatetagsdirectory with the following architecture:

cw/
    templatetags/
         __init.py__
         gravatar.py
    views.py
    ...

the gravatar.py contains

from django import template
import urllib, hashlib

register = template.Library()

class GravatarUrlNode(template.Node):
def __init__(self, email):
    self.email = template.Variable(email)

def render(self, context):
    try:
        email = self.email.resolve(context)
    except template.VariableDoesNotExist:
        return ''

    default = "/site_media/img/defaultavatar.jpg"
    size = 40

    gravatar_url = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/" + hashlib.md5(email.lower()).hexdigest() + "?"
    gravatar_url += urllib.urlencode({'d':default, 's':str(size)})

    return gravatar_url

@register.tag
def gravatar_url(parser, token):
    try:
        tag_name, email = token.split_contents()

    except ValueError:
        raise template.TemplateSyntaxError, "%r tag requires a single argument" % token.contents.split()[0]

    return GravatarUrlNode(email)

and in one of the templates of cw i tried:

{% load gravatar %}

but i get:

'gravatar' is not a valid tag library: Template library gravatar not found, tried django.templatetags.gravatar,django.contrib.admin.templatetags.gravatar`

I run django 1.2.1 python 2.6 and in my settings.py:

TEMPLATE_LOADERS = ( 
'django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source',
'django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source',
'django.template.loaders.eggs.load_template_source',
)
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = ( 
"django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
"django.core.context_processors.debug",
"django.core.context_processors.auth",
"django.core.context_processors.request",
"django.core.context_processors.i18n",
"django.core.context_processors.media",
"django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",
)

EDIT: i've found this other implementation that is neater: http://tomatohater.com/2008/08/16/implementing-gravatar-django/

Answer 1

Your problem is here:

cw/
    templatetags/
        __init.py__ <<<
        gravatar.py
    views.py
    ...

It should be __init__.py not __init.py__

Answer 2

So the solution i've found is to share the gravatar templates among all my applications by creating a lib directory:

proj/
    __init__.py
    lib/
        __init__.py
        templatetags/
            __init.py__
            common_tags.py

and adding lib to my installed apps