{% load %} does not load template tags inside sub-directories

[Bjørn Stabell <bjorn@…>]

According to {% load %} you can load templatetags that are in subdirectories, e.g. {% load news.blah %}. This didn't work for me; I kept getting errors.

Applying the below patch seems to work. I don't know why taglib.split('.')[-1]) was done in the first place? It's been like this for as far back as I could trace the revisions in on this Trac. A related ticket might be #372.

Index: django/template/defaulttags.py
===================================================================
--- django/template/defaulttags.py      (revision 8271)
+++ django/template/defaulttags.py      (working copy)
@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@
     for taglib in bits[1:]:
         # add the library to the parser
         try:
-            lib = get_library("django.templatetags.%s" % taglib.split('.')[-1])
+            lib = get_library("django.templatetags.%s" % taglib)
             parser.add_library(lib)
         except InvalidTemplateLibrary, e:
             raise TemplateSyntaxError, "'%s' is not a valid tag library: %s" % (taglib, e)

[Bjørn Stabell <bjorn@…>]

Patch to make {% load module.submodule %} work

[Adrian Holovaty]

Fixed formatting in description.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

(In [6289]) Fixed #5243 -- Allow loading of templatetags from subdirectories (via dotted notation in {% load %}). Thanks, Bj?\195?\184rn Stabell.

[lex.forget@…]

For me this patch broke the loading in subdirectories

I am using nesh.thumbnail

in the template: {% load nesh.thumbnail %}

in the settings:
{{{INSTALLED_APPS = (

'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.markup',
'django.contrib.flatpages',
'django.contrib.humanize',
'nesh.thumbnail',

)

}}}

[Brian Rosner]

This change was a backward incompatible change. Please see ​http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/BackwardsIncompatibleChanges#Templatetagloadingrespectsdottednotation for more information. Please take this to django-users or #django on freenode.