ImageField .path attribute does not take into account upload_to pre-save - Django 1.1

[djm]

I'm not sure if this was an intentional change with Django and I couldn't find a related ticket/general information on the subject so here goes:

With Django 1.0, when overriding the save() method on model that has an ImageField (let's name the field "logo"), the full (absolute) system path of the file was available by using self.logo.path before and after calling super(ModelName, self).save().

On a clean install of 1.1 however, with the field logo = models.ImageField(upload_to="uploads/img/logos/") and save() method as below:

def save(self):
    print self.logo.path
    super(Exhibitor, self).save()
    print self.logo.path

the following is observed:

/home/djm/sites/projectname/media/Firefox_wallpaper.png
/home/djm/sites/projectname/media/uploads/img/logos/Firefox_wallpaper_.png

As you can see, the "upload_to" part of the path is missing pre-save. Is this right - or should I just not be trying to use the .path attribute pre-save?

[Karen Tracey]

See #10788 and ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.1/#names-of-uploaded-files-are-available-later

It wasn't actually an intentional change but it was intentionally decided not to try to restore the old behavior.

[djm]

I have read that page many a time and I still can't see how I missed that glaring fact. Many thanks.