Django: How to allow a Suspicious File Operation / copy a file

Question

I want to do a SuspiciousFileOperation which django disallows by default.

I am writing a command (to run via manage.py importfiles) to impo

Answer 1

In Django, SuspiciousFileOperation can be avoid by read the file from external dir and make a tmp file within the project media then save in the appropriate file filed as below

import tempfile

file_name="file_name.pdf"
EXT_FILE_PATH = "/home/somepath/"
file_path = EXT_FILE_PATH + file_name
if exists(file_path):
    #create a named temporary file within the project base , here in media

    lf = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(dir='media')
    f = open(file_path, 'rb')
    lf.write(f.read())
    #doc object with file FileField.

    doc.file.save(file_name, File(lf), save=True)
    lf.close()