If I was handling the photo in a view, I'm sure I could get the path
information out of request.FILES['filename'] - but I am trying to upload it
in a model.
Regards,
Lloyd
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
<zebr...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Thanks Daniel,
>
> Using photo.path causes it to try to find the image in my MEDIA_ROOT, which
> is not what I need. I need a way to get the path from the image upload
> dialogue as encircled in the attached image.
>
> The image is currently on my desktop and not in my media root and I need to
> get the desktop path.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Lloyd
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk>wrote:
>
>> On Nov 26, 2:03 pm, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube <zebr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I found the issue: it is the path to the image. When I change the
>> problem
>> > line to
>> >
>> > image = Image.open(os.path.realpath('C:\Users\Lloyd\Desktop\Lloyd.png'))
>> >
>> > it works, but I cannot hard code the path and I cannot predict where the
>> > user will try to upload a file from. Isn't there a way to dynamically
>> get
>> > the path from the file upload dialogue where the user browses to it and
>> > selects it?
>> >
>> > Thanks...
>>
>> Why were you using photo.name as the path in the first place?
>> photo.path stores the full path to the image, as noted in the
>> documentation:
>> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/files/file/
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