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diff --git a/docs/topics/http/file-uploads.txt b/docs/topics/http/file-uploads.txt index aebdc32a31..4a9340474d 100644 --- a/docs/topics/http/file-uploads.txt +++ b/docs/topics/http/file-uploads.txt @@ -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:: |