Commit a6a0b293 authored by Karen Tracey's avatar Karen Tracey
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Fixed #10400: Added a note in the file uploads doc about the correct form type...

Fixed #10400: Added a note in the file uploads doc about the correct form type needed for file uploads to work.  Thanks claudep and timo.


git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@10816 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ is a dictionary containing a key for each ``FileField`` (or ``ImageField``, or
other ``FileField`` subclass) in the form. So the data from the above form would
be accessible as ``request.FILES['file']``.

Note that ``request.FILES`` will only contain data if the request method was 
``POST`` and the ``<form>`` that posted the request has the attribute
``enctype="multipart/form-data"``. Otherwise, ``request.FILES`` will be empty.

Most of the time, you'll simply pass the file data from ``request`` into the
form as described in :ref:`binding-uploaded-files`. This would look
something like::