How to check ImageField is empty

django imagefield

iva123 · Mar 6, 2011 · Viewed 17.6k times · Source

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 :

>>> p.avatar
<ImageFieldFile: None>
>>> p.avatar is None
False

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

Answer

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