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-rw-r--r--django/core/template_file.py6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/django/core/template_file.py b/django/core/template_file.py
index 71139595ab..25862da55a 100644
--- a/django/core/template_file.py
+++ b/django/core/template_file.py
@@ -15,4 +15,8 @@ def load_template_source(template_name, template_dirs=None):
return open(filepath).read()
except IOError:
tried.append(filepath)
- raise TemplateDoesNotExist, str(tried)
+ if template_dirs:
+ error_msg = "Tried %s" % tried
+ else:
+ error_msg = "Your TEMPLATE_DIRS settings is empty. Change it to point to at least one template directory."
+ raise TemplateDoesNotExist, error_msg