Django FileField / File .path VS .name

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# Django's models.FileField stores FieldFile objects. These have both .name 
# and .path attributes, which however are not exactly intuitive:

my_instance.my_filefield.name 
# E.g. whatever/123/foo.png
# Returns the path relative to MEDIA_ROOT, not the filename!
# For the filename do e.g. os.path.basename(my_instance.my_filefield.name)

my_instance.my_filefield.path
# E.g. /var/www/media/whatever/123/foo.png
# Returns the absolute filepath!

# When populating a model instance's FileField attribute, make sure pass 
# either a File() or ContentFile() object directly, or alternatively, a
# filepath that is relative to MEDIA_ROOT, like above.