django - Overwriting files with default_storage.save()

Question

I'm using django.core.files.storage.default_storage function for saving files, but I don't see an option where I would specify that existing ones have to be overwritten. I'm looking for some simplest and cleanest solution, so do I have to write my own function for checking if file exists, and if it does to delete it before saving?

Answer 1

Take a look at django-storages .

It has an overwrite storage backend that does what you're looking for. You just need to update your settings.py to use the OverwriteStorage class:

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.overwrite.OverwriteStorage'