from django.core.files import File user1=User(name=”abc”) user1.pic.save(‘abc.png’, File(open(‘/tmp/pic.png’, ‘r’))) You will end up with the image abc.png copied into the upload_to directory specified in the ImageField. In this case, the user1.pic.save method will also save the user1 instance. The documentation for saving an ImageField can be found here https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/files/file/
You should not create the user via the normal User(…) syntax, as others have suggested. You should always use User.objects.create_user(), which takes care of setting the password properly. user@host> manage.py shell >>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User >>> user=User.objects.create_user(‘foo’, password=’bar’) >>> user.is_superuser=True >>> user.is_staff=True >>> user.save()
The << part is wrong, use < instead: $ ./manage.py shell < myscript.py You could also do: $ ./manage.py shell … >>> execfile(‘myscript.py’) For python3 you would need to use >>> exec(open(‘myscript.py’).read())