Why can't I upload jpg files to my Django app via admin/?

Question

I\'m trying to add images to my models in my Django app.

models.py

class ImageMain(models.Model):
  product = models.ForeignKey(Product)
  photo = mo         


        

Answer 1

Django is trying to import PIL from a folder called PIL, but PIL installs itself in a folder called e.g. PIL-1.1.7-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg, so the import fails - which Django (or PIL ?) seem to interpret as corrupt image.

A simple symlink

host:~ user$ cd /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages
host:site-packages user$ ln -vis PIL-1.1.7-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg PIL
create symbolic link `PIL' to `PIL-1.1.7-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg'

has fixed this for me on a Mac OSX 10.6.x MBP. On Linux machines, the folder might instead be called dist-packages and be underneath /usr/lib/python/ or so, but the idea is the same.

You can often find the folder where python modules are usually installed to as described here.