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    copied!<p>I am getting this error when trying to include a static image in Django. </p> <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/servers/basehttp.py", line 280, in run self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response) File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/servers/basehttp.py", line 674, in __call__ return self.application(environ, start_response) File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 245, in __call__ response = middleware_method(request, response) File "/Users/Josh/djcode/lists/debug_toolbar/middleware.py", line 105, in process_response smart_unicode(response.content), File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/utils/encoding.py", line 39, in smart_unicode return force_unicode(s, encoding, strings_only, errors) File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/utils/encoding.py", line 88, in force_unicode raise DjangoUnicodeDecodeError(s, *e.args) DjangoUnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 0: unexpected code byte. You passed in '\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n\x00\x00\x00\rIHDR\x00\x00\x00P\x00\x00\x00H\x08\x06\x00\x00\x00a\x94r[\x00\x00\x00\tpHYs\x00\x00\x0b\x13\x00\x00\x0b\x13\x01\x00\x9a\x9c\x18\x00\x00\nOiCCPPhotoshop ICC profile\x00\x00x\xda\x9dSgTS\xe9\x16=\xf7\xde\xf4BK\x88\x80\x94KoR....`\x82' (&lt;type 'str'&gt;) </code></pre> <p>I am using this to serve my static media:</p> <pre><code>if settings.DEBUG: urlpatterns += patterns('', (r'^media/(?P&lt;path&gt;.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT}), ) </code></pre> <p>and here is my settings.py (having tried the STATIC_ROOT with and without the trailing slash:</p> <pre><code>STATIC_URL = '/media/' STATIC_ROOT = '/Users/Josh/djcode/static_media' </code></pre> <p>CSS and javascript files work fine, however images do not. Here is my HTML: <code>&lt;img src="/media/img/new_list_button.png" alt="Make a new list."/&gt;</code></p> <p>Thanks in advance for any help.</p>
 

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