I was trying Django the other night and the tutorial from their site mentioned to set the absolute directory to all of my template files on a variable called TEMPLATE_DIRS which is inside the settings.py.

Now I already read somewhere else that this is because you can specify your template files to be outside of your Django project. But for the sample I was working on, I want it to be inside the project's folder so I added a template folder there and to tell Django to automatically detect and set the path to my templates folder, I added it like this:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "templates"), )

What this does is it joins the current directory where the settings.py file resides and concatenates it with the templates folder. You can probably put this inside a function when you start adding multiple template directories.