Django FileField (or ImageField) open() method returns None for valid file?

Issue

let me put it like this:

model.py:

class Task(models.Model):
    ...
    seq_file = models.FileField(upload_to='files/', blank=True, null=True)
    ...

ajax.py (I’m using dajaxice but it doesn’t matter):

...
def startTask(request, name):
    task = Task.objects.get(task_name=name)
    data = task.seq_file.open()
    filename = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT ,task.seq_file.name)
    if not os.path.isfile(filename):
        raise Exception, "file " + filename + " not found."
    sequences = parser.parse(data.read())
    ...

this returns:

File "/home/mnowotka/Dokumenty/MgrFuncAdnot/app/django-gui/src/gui/ajax.py", line 43, in startTask
sequences = parser.parse(data.read())

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'read'

but:

...
def startTask(request, name):
    task = Task.objects.get(task_name=name)
    filename = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT ,task.seq_file.name)
    if not os.path.isfile(filename):
        raise Exception, "file " + filename + " not found."
    data = open(filename)  
    sequences = parser.parse(data.read())
    ...

works perfectly!
Why?

(I’m using django 1.3)

Solution

because open method of models.FileField doesn’t return anything

you can just use:

task.seq_file.read()

and you don’t need calculate path of file for checking if file exist. you can use task.seq_file.path:

if not os.path.isfile(task.seq_file.path):
    ....

Answered By – kosmos342

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