What is the preferred way of storing generated content into file
models?

class Chart(models.Model):
    xml = models.FileField(upload_to='charts')
    ...

I would like compute the image on the fly, using some data in the
database. How should I store the generated data? How should I use File
storage for this task?

I would like Django to take care of the file naming for me. I would
like to use a one-liner such as

Chart.objects.create(xml=default_storage.save('data.xml', data))

where data is a string, but that gives me

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

The example from 
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/files/#storage-objects
does not work for me either:

>>> from django.core.files.storage import default_storage

>>> path = default_storage.save('/path/to/file', 'new content')

This will give me

<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>: 'str' object has no attribute
'chunks'

Should I use the class File directly? How? For File.save() to work, I
would need an associated an object. Please advise.

Thank you
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