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10650	Clarify use of MEDIA_ROOT in default settings.py	Tom von Schwerdtner	jjconti	"I had a bit of a palm-to-face moment when I realized that MEDIA_ROOT was *not* a place to stick media files to be served up by the development server.  Maybe the bizarre way in which my brain functions made me the one and only person that would make this mistake (seriously, it's possible), but I figure this coudl also be a point of confusion for people new to Django, so I propose a small adjustment to the generated settings.py:

From:

{{{
# Absolute path to the directory that holds media.
# Example: ""/home/media/media.lawrence.com/""
MEDIA_ROOT = ''
}}}

To:

{{{
# Absolute path to the directory that will hold uploaded media.
# Example: ""/home/media/media.lawrence.com/""
MEDIA_ROOT = ''
}}}

"		closed	Documentation	1.0		fixed	pycamp2010		Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0