django get media directories in view or model

Question

I have a model where I I am writing a function to upload files :

def get_upload_file_name(instance, filename):
    return "my_files/{}".format(filename)

In my settings I have

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')

My static structure

static
    css
    img
    js
    my_files

Here I dont want to return hardcoded my_files I want to return from setting like

{{MEDIA_ROOT}}/{}".format(filename) 

or something like that... How can I do this ?

Answer 1

To answer the question you actually asked, you can access your MEDIA_ROOT setting (and any other Django settings) in your views and models with:

settings.MEDIA_ROOT

As mentioned however, you probably want to read up on how media is handled in Django first.

Read about using settings in python code in the docs.