Tips for django settings.py

Make a like this function for locate the directories in your django project settings  insted of calling "os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname ()" every where ( like : static,templates,media )

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add below function in your settings.py

import os

def root(x):
    return os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname( __file__ ), '..',x))

then you can call it like this

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (

    root('templates')
)