Django save method in infinite loop, code review?

Django newbie :) I'm wondering if you kind people could help me work out how to solve a little issue I'm having :) I'm using S3 storage via the package django-storages.

The following code gets stuck in an endless loop. I know  just enough to know why, but not how to solve...

Remembering I'm a newbie....


This is what the the code I have written does so far....

1) profile gets saves and image uploaded (without the resize of course) to S3 - PERFECT
2) the full size image is then read from S3 in the image_resize function and resized and renamed in the database - PERFECT
3) old large image get deleted from S3 - - PERFECT
4) it is then saved on this line   self.image.save and continues it all over again in a infinite loop! - ERROR 

        def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
            # delete old file when replacing by updating the file
            try:
                this = Profile.objects.get(id=self.id)
                if this.image != self.image:
                    this.image.delete(save=False)
            except: pass # when new photo then we do nothing, normal case
            super(Profile, self).save(*args, **kwargs)
            if self.image:
                image_resize(self)
   
   
    def image_resize(self):
        import urllib2 as urllib
        from cStringIO import StringIO
        from django.core.files.uploadedfile import SimpleUploadedFile
   
        '''Open original photo which we want to resize using PIL's Image object'''
        img_file = urllib.urlopen(self.image.url)
        im = StringIO(img_file.read())
        resized_image = Image.open(im)
   
   
        '''Convert to RGB if necessary'''
        if resized_image.mode not in ('L', 'RGB'):
            resized_image = resized_image.convert('RGB')
   
        '''We use our PIL Image object to create the resized image, which already
        has a thumbnail() convenicne method that constrains proportions.
        Additionally, we use Image.ANTIALIAS to make the image look better.
        Without antialiasing the image pattern artificats may reulst.'''
        resized_image.thumbnail((100, 100), Image.ANTIALIAS)
   
        '''Save the resized image'''
        temp_handle = StringIO()
        resized_image.save(temp_handle, 'jpeg')
        temp_handle.seek(0)
   
   
        ''' Save to the image field'''
        suf = SimpleUploadedFile(os.path.split(self.image.name)[-1].split('.')[0],
                                     temp_handle.read(), content_type='image/jpeg')
        self.image.save('%s.jpg' % suf.name, suf, save=True)

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