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