Tutorial 2 has error about default template directory name

[rogerpack2005@…]

It says on page 2 of the tutorial ​http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial02/ that
settings.py has a line that has a default template directory name, which directory does not exist. Actually currently it just has comments under that setting, in that file (not a fake holder), so it has changed slightly. Thanks!

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

Can you be a bit more specific about where this error occurs? A line number on the template02.txt file for example?

If you mean line 300, that is an example and the comment says you have to change it. Not sure how we could be more clear there; feel free to make a suggestion that isn't a lot longer. I can't find anywhere else in that source file that gives an example of anything in TEMPLATE_DIRS.

[Adrian Holovaty]

Made description more meaningful.

[rogerpack2005@…]

ahh I get it. You say

"/home/my_username/mytemplates", # Change this to your own directory.

which means not that this line "already exists" in the template directory, but that we should add it.

I thought that it meant "go and find this line and change it" which line doesn't currently exist.
The change I would make to the tutorial would be to say

So, let’s add a NEW line to it, to tell
Django where our templates live. It will look like this:
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (

"/home/my_username/mytemplates", # Change this to your own directory.

)

Or so. The real confusion is that settings.py TEMPLATE_DIRS settings has some "other things" that are in it by default which aren't shown here, so it confused me. Thanks!