I follow the Django tutorial where you need to create some thumbnails of images after saving the image in admin. I also use the tempfile module for Python to save a temporary file name.

However, I continue to encounter the following error:

"Type: IOError" "Value: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c:\\docume~1\\myname\\locals~1\\temp\\somefilename'"

Here is the code I'm using

Settings

MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/myname/projectname/media/'
MEDIA_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/'enter code here

models.py

from string import join
import os
from PIL import Image as PImage
from settings import MEDIA_ROOT
from os.path import join as pjoin
from tempfile import *
from string import join
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.contrib import admin
from django.core.files import File

class Image(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=60, blank=True, null=True)
    image = models.FileField(upload_to="images/")
    thumbnail = models.ImageField(upload_to="images/", blank=True, null=True)
    tags = models.ManyToManyField(Tag, blank=True)
    albums = models.ManyToManyField(Album, blank=True)
    created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    rating = models.IntegerField(default=50)
    width = models.IntegerField(blank=True, null=True)
    height = models.IntegerField(blank=True, null=True)
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, null=True, blank=True)
    thumbnail2 = models.ImageField(upload_to="images/", blank=True, null=True)

def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
    #Save image dimensions
    super(Image, self).save(*args, **kwargs)
    im = PImage.open(pjoin(MEDIA_ROOT, self.image.name))
    self.width, self.height = im.size

    # large thumbnail
    fn, ext = os.path.splitext(self.image.name)
    im.thumbnail((128,128), PImage.ANTIALIAS)
    thumb_fn = fn + "-thumb2" + ext
    tf2 = NamedTemporaryFile()
    im.save(tf2.name, "JPEG")
    self.thumbnail2.save(thumb_fn, File(open(tf2.name)), save=False)
    tf2.close()

    # small thumbnail
    im.thumbnail((40,40), PImage.ANTIALIAS)
    thumb_fn = fn + "-thumb" + ext
    tf = NamedTemporaryFile()
    im.save(tf.name, "JPEG")
    self.thumbnail.save(thumb_fn, File(open(tf.name)), save=False)
    tf.close()

    super(Image, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

def size(self):
    """Image size."""
    return "%s x %s" % (self.width, self.height)

def __unicode__(self):
    return self.image.name

def tags_(self):
    lst = [x[1] for x in self.tags.values_list()]
    return str(join(lst, ', '))

def albums_(self):
    lst = [x[1] for x in self.albums.values_list()]
    return str(join(lst, ', '))

def thumbnail_(self):
    return """<a href="/media/%s"><img border="0" alt="" src="/media/%s" /></a>""" % (
                                                        (self.image.name, self.thumbnail.name))
thumbnail.allow_tags = Trueenter code here

Admin

class ImageAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    # search_fields = ["title"]
    list_display = ["__unicode__", "title", "user", "rating", "size",  "tags_","albums_",
    "thumbnail", "created"]
list_filter = ["tags", "albums", "user"]

def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):
    obj.user = request.user
    obj.save()

I know that there are much more efficient ways to use image thumbnails in Django, but I would like to know why I keep getting this permission error when thumbnails are used this way.

All help is much appreciated. Thank you