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| author | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2013-03-22 06:01:51 -0400 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2013-03-22 07:44:42 -0400 |
| commit | 7206330c15b6d37dba46e311fd5135b25cf9f9e9 (patch) | |
| tree | 6d1b4e8c277591cd6c7c2fbacf2f1ec421ef901a | |
| parent | add0dc02ad69a5798adfaa12d44c6e9fd5651746 (diff) | |
[1.5.x] Fixed #17935 - Clarified intro of topics/files.txt.
Thanks guettli for the suggestion.
Backport of f7795e968d from master
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/files.txt b/docs/topics/files.txt index 94685f9bc7..c36094a599 100644 --- a/docs/topics/files.txt +++ b/docs/topics/files.txt @@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ Managing files ============== -This document describes Django's file access APIs. +This document describes Django's file access APIs for files such as those +uploaded by a user. The lower level APIs are general enough that you could use +them for other purposes. If you want to handle "static files" (JS, CSS, etc), +see :doc:`/howto/static-files`. By default, Django stores files locally, using the :setting:`MEDIA_ROOT` and :setting:`MEDIA_URL` settings. The examples below assume that you're using these |