id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 8675,File storage - Storage objects example does not work,whiskybar,nobody,"The example at the beginning of http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/files/#storage-objects does not work. {{{ >>> from django.core.files.storage import default_storage >>> path = default_storage.save('/path/to/file', 'new content') }}} will give you an error: {{{ : 'str' object has no attribute 'chunks' }}} The way to fix is to pass ContentFile('new content') from django.core.files.base. In fact, other examples should be double checked if they expect a string or a ContentFile-like object. See http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/230a8601a4839bd9 for more information. ",,closed,Documentation,dev,,duplicate,,,Unreviewed,0,0,0,0,0,0