[Answered ]-How to associate a generated file with a Django model

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Django FileField would either be a django.core.files.File, which is a file instance or django.core.files.base.ContentFile, which takes a string as parameter and compose a ContentFile. Since you already had the file content as a string, sounds like ContentFile is the way to go(I couldn’t test it but it should work):

from django.core.files.base import ContentFile

# create an in memory instance
css = form.save(commit=False)
# file content as string
css_string = "body {color: #a9f;}"
# create ContentFile instance
css_file = ContentFile(css_string)
# assign the file to the FileField
css.css_file.save('myfile.css', css_file)
css.save()

Check django doc about FileField details.

👤Shang Wang

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