How to assign a local file to the FileField in Django?

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I was trying to assign a file from my disk to the FileField, but I have this error:

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'open'

My python code:

pdfImage = FileSaver()
pdfImage.myfile.save('new', open('mytest.pdf').read())

and my models.py

class FileSaver(models.Model):

    myfile = models.FileField(upload_to="files/")

    class Meta:
        managed=False

Thank you in advance for your help

filefield django python
4 Answers

If you don't want to open the file, you can also move the file to the media folder and directly set myfile.name with the relative path to MEDIA_ROOT :

import os
os.rename('mytest.pdf', '/media/files/mytest.pdf')
pdfImage = FileSaver()
pdfImage.myfile.name = '/files/mytest.pdf'
pdfImage.save()
user_44582460

if you are getting error like:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position...

then you have to open the file in binary mode: open("mytest.pdf", "rb")

full example:

from django.core.files import File

pdfImage = FileSaver()
pdfImage.myfile.save('new.pdf', File(open('mytest.pdf','rb')))
user_23516960

If you want to upload a local file in django, you can do this

from django.core.files import File

file = open(filepath, 'rb')
file_to_upload = File(file, name=f'{your_desired_name}')
file.close()

Now you can pass the file to django rest serializer to upload or whatever your use-case is. If passing this file to serializer, be sure to close it after it has been passed to serializer.

Note: The filepath here can be django's temporary file or any stored file.

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