On Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:40:35 UTC+1, Greg Donald wrote:
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> I have a model EventType that has an ImageField named image.
>
> When I post my image upload form I can upload an image with no problems.
>
>
> But when I try to save() an image from the file system I get the error:
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> 'str' object has no attribute 'chunks'
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>
> Here is my code:
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> et = EventType( name=name )
> et.save()
>
> image_name = "%s.png" % name
> image_path = "%s/images/%s.png" % ( settings.MEDIA_ROOT, name )
> image_file = open( image_path, 'rb' )
>
> et.image.save( image_name, image_file.read() )
>
>
> I'm sure the file exists and is readable.
>
> I'm not sure why image_file.read() is returning a str, it spews a
> bunch of what appears to be image data when I debug it.
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
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>
> Thanks.
>
But that "bunch of image data" is a string - because that's what .read()
returns.
The FileField documentation [1] shows how to save a disk file to a field:
from django.core.files import File
f = open('/tmp/hello.world')
myfile = File(f)
et.image.save( image_name, myfile )
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.FieldFile.save
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