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maroxe
maroxe

Reputation: 2127

Context passed to template in Django

There is something I don't get in Django template system. I have a FileField in my model called myfile. If I pass an instance of my model to a template, I can access file.size (this is an example). Where does the file.size variable come from? It's not part of the FileField class as far as I know. A small test:

def save(self):
    super(UploadItem, self).save()
    import logging; logging.debug(file.size)

This snippet generates this error: type object 'file' has no attribute 'size'

Is Django doing this via magic of some kind?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 150

Answers (1)

S.Lott
S.Lott

Reputation: 391854

If you want to retrieve the upload file's on-disk filename, or a URL that refers to that file, or the file's size, you can use the name, url and size attributes; see Managing files.

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/models/fields/#filefield

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/topics/files/

Upvotes: 2

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