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+from django.core.files.storage import FileSystemStorage
+
+
+class OverwriteStorage(FileSystemStorage):
+    """
+    Comes from http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/976/
+    (even if it already exists in S3Storage for ages)
+
+    See also Django #4339, which might add this functionality to core.
+    """
+
+    def get_available_name(self, name):
+        """
+        Returns a filename that's free on the target storage system, and
+        available for new content to be written to.
+        """
+        if self.exists(name):
+            self.delete(name)
+        return name