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Django 1.5 changed. The url tag syntax from {% url  my_page %} into {% url "my_page" %} . Now all my templates should be changed accordingly to migrate to 1.5. You could do it with executing this command in your bash shell. Assuming you are in the project folder. Assuming you have version control, or do know how to backup your work ;). Some people claim it is unsafe. But you may want to make it safer with adding '{%' to the beginning of the string. To make sure only templates arre changed. Or either execute this only in your templates folder to be sure. $ find . - type f - print0 | xargs - 0 sed - i 's/ url \([^" >][^ >]*\)/ url "\1"/g' And one person did a django snippet for this operation. You may also find it useful.  http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2905/

Today I had experience with django file downloads from an specified url into Django model FileField. I'm writing content grabber from Flickr. I didn't find information about it and decided to write what I've discovered so far in example. Stackoverflow helped me a bit. But answer proposed there had not worked. So this is code example how to workout this issue: because code worth a thousand words :) We have a model with one field: #models.py class Photo ( models . Model ):     image = models . ImageField ( 'Label' , upload_to = 'path/' ) We need to create a photo from image url and save it to the model's FileField. #somewhere in views.py # usually in header imports from urlparse import urlparse import urllib2 from django . core . files import File   #add imprt of content file wrapper from django . core . files . base import ContentFile # somewhere: for e.g. in view handling the file operations photo = Photo () img_url =...