On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 6:16:23 AM UTC-7, Michał Nowotka wrote: > > Hello, > I'm working with oracle legacy DB and need to read and write binary data > (png images, and and MDL *Molfiles*). > Django's inspectdb command generated text fields for these columns, saying > that's only a guess. > Now, when I'm trying to retrieve a value from this class fields i get: > DjangoUnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position > 0: invalid start byte. > error. > > Is there any way to read and write these columns? > Any help would be appreciated. >
Django has no built-in field type for BLOB columns. You might try using the custom field type given in one of the answers here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5581466/django-models-blob-field I haven't used this myself, so I can't vouch for how well it will work. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/4EzQIAYCLjQJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
