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Manually associate an existing file to a model FileField
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| # Assuming you have a Article Model like this | |
| # class Article(models.Model): | |
| # ... Some field | |
| # media = models.FileField(upload_to="path_to_inner_media_folder", blank=True) | |
| from django.core.files import ContentFile | |
| import os | |
| # Create an article with the associated model | |
| new_article = Article() | |
| original_file_path = 'path' | |
| new_file_path = 'new_path' | |
| fh = open(original_file_path, "r") | |
| if fh: | |
| # Get the content of the file | |
| file_content = ContentFile(fh.read()) | |
| # Set the media attribute of the article with or file, but under an other path/filename | |
| new_article.media.save(new_file_path, file_content) | |
| # Save the article | |
| new_article.save() | |
| # Close the file and delete it | |
| fh.close() | |
| if fh.closed: | |
| os.remove(unicode(fh.name)) | |
| del fh |
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