How can I print the value of TEMPLATE_DIRS from the django interactive shell?

Question

I would like to print this value for debugging purposes. How can I do it?

print TEMPLATE_DIRS doesn't work print settings.TEMPLATE_DIRS doesn't work.

Answer 1

Did you import the settings first?

$steve ./manage.py shell

Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jun 16 2011, 16:59:05)

In [1]: from django.conf import settings
In [2]: settings.TEMPLATES[0]['DIRS']
Out [2] ('/Volumes/HDD/usr/local/django/mytestproject/templates',)

Answer 2

I think the easiest, and therefore the ans you may be looking for is to add the following to your settings.py

print ("This is the template.dirs", TEMPLATES[0]['DIRS'])...python 3.x for 2.x leave out the parentheses

so the answer is... standard way to access dict element within a list TEMPLATES[0]['DIRS']

Then when you run your server the values will be printed out, at the very beginning