Django: Getting Started Transcripts
Chapter: Receiving Uploads in Django
Lecture: Creating an upload directory and migrating DB changes
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First off, I'll create the directories that I told setting.py would exist. Now, I'll create the migration file for the changes to author.
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Oops. Remember when I told you that image field requires a third party library. Time to install that now.
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It's called pillow and it's an awesome image manipulation library. If you haven't played with it before, I suggest going and taking a look.
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It is really handy if you want to do image thumbnails and the like. Django uses it to validate that a file is actually an image and to support certain
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metadata, like the image dimensions. With that installed, let's try to make migrations again. That's better now to migrate and you're good to go.