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Problem loading custom template tags (Error: No module named x)

Asked 2009-09-27T16:50:35.507
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I am currently writing a few custom template tags but for some reason they will not load. My directory structure is as follows:

MyProj
 |
 ----MyApp
     |
     |----templatetags
          |
          |----myapp_tags.py
          |----__init__.py

In myapp_tags.py

from django.template import Library, Node
from myproj.myapp.models import Product

register = Library()

class LatestProductsNode(Node):
    def render(self, context):
        context['recent_products'] = Product.objects.all()[:5]
        return ''

def get_latest_products(parser, token):
    return LatestProductsNode()

get_latest_products = register.tag(get_latest_products)

In settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'myproj.myapp',
)

In the Template

{% load myapp_tags %}

The error i get when trying to load the page:

Exception Type:     TemplateSyntaxError Exception Value:    

'myapp_tags' is not a valid tag library: Could not load template library from django.templatetags.myapp_tags, No module named myapp_tags
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One thing that's tripped me up is that the magic importing of templatetags bypasses the automatic reloading of the development server. If the following works in manage.py shell

>>> from django.templatetags import myapp_tags
>>>

Then everything is actually working and you just need to reload the development server. If on the other hand you get an ImportError then something is wrong and you should check your INSTALLED_APPS, that you have an __init__.py file in the templatetags directory and all the other things suggested in the other answers.

This will probably only apply to a tiny fraction of the people who experience template tag loading problems, but this is the second time I've arrived at this question in as many weeks and both times it's just taken restarting the development server to get things working.

answered 2009-10-06T20:51:39.210

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