filefield

I have 2 simple models: class UploadImage(models.Model): Image = models.ImageField(upload_to="temp/") class RealImage(models.Model): Image = models.ImageField(upload_to="real/") And one form class RealImageForm(ModelForm): class Meta: model = RealImage I need to save file from UploadImage into RealImage. How could i do this. Below code doesn't work realform.Image=UploadImage.objects.get(id=image_id).Image realform.save() Tnx for help. Inspired by Gerard's solution I came up with the following code: from django.core.files.base import ContentFile #... class Example(models.Model): file = models

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 tux21b Django uses it's own file type (with a sightly enhanced functionality). Anyway Django's file type works like a decorator , so you can simply wrap it around existing file objects to meet the needs of the