How to check ImageField is empty

Question

I have an ImageField in my model and when I\'m saving it I want to check that if it\'s None or not.

In django shell I\'m calling my object\'s ImageField and it gives

Answer 1

I found that the ImageField's name is u'', so is there any better way to do it ?

Actually, it looks like that's exactly how this class evaluates bool(), so the better way is to just test its bool() by calling if p.avatar

ImageFieldFile subclasses File, which defines:

def __nonzero__(self):
    return bool(self.name)

So the better way is indeed:

if not p.avatar:
   print "I don't exist"

bool(p.avatar) is False