Reference static files in django in .py files ( NOT in templates)

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I've been like an hour searching how to reference static files in django, but I only found how to do it in templates. In my project, I succeeded in referencing static files in my templates, but I DON'T want to do it in templates, I want to do it in my .py files.

I think that i have to import static from somewere, I've tried with this:

from django.templatetags.static import static
from django.conf.urls.static import static

And trying to reference it like this

'<a href=/url> <img  src="{{ STATIC_URL }}image.png" ></a>'

I've tried all possible combinations like

{% static image.png %}
{{static image.png}}

and so on...

Thanks!

knbk · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-02 20:38:56Z

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from django.templatetags.static import static
'<a href=/url> <img  src="{0}" ></a>'.format(static("image.png"))

Note that django.templatetags.static is actually a function. The template engine calls that function when you use the template tag.

answered Feb 2, 2015 at 20:38

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knbk Over a year ago

@Danidestroyer Could you accept one of the answers? That way, other people will know this question has been answered.

David Louda Over a year ago

For me this shows path correctly but imgs in admin never load

MinchinWeb · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-05 00:49:50Z

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If you want to find the actual file on disk, you can use the finders class of the staticfiles app:

>>> from django.contrib.staticfiles import finders
>>> finders.find("icons/exclamation.svg")
'C:\\<project folder>\\<project name>\\<app name>\\static\\icons\\exclamation.svg'

Django Docs

answered Aug 5, 2020 at 0:49

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Pavel Reznikov · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-02 21:03:18Z

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You can read django configuration to get STATIC_URL which contains URL base part for static files:

from django.conf import settings
import urlparse

print '<a href=/url> <img src="%s"></a>' % urlparse.urljoin(settings.STATIC_URL, 'image.png')

edited Feb 2, 2015 at 21:03

answered Feb 2, 2015 at 20:37

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3 Comments

oefe Over a year ago

Code snippets on their own are not very informative. Please explain what the code does, why you wrote it that way, and how you expect it to work

Pavel Reznikov Over a year ago

I've add a link to documentation

Aiden Bell Over a year ago

This doesn't work with various static file storage backends

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