record  =db.mytable(id)
originalfilename, stream  = db.mytable.myfield.retrieve(record.myfield) 
data = stream.read()

where myfield must be of upload type

On Saturday, 21 April 2012 12:48:14 UTC-5, Daniel Kaplan wrote:
>
>
> I'm a new user of Python/web2py working on a scientific application. I've 
> created a model of a table with a field of type 'upload' that will accept a 
> csv file. Inside this csv file are comma separated floats, and there are 
> several rows of numbers. 
>
> Example: 
>
> 100, 200, 300
> 1.2, 1.5, 1.6
>
> From the controller, I want to get access to this csv file, parse the data 
> such that the end result is a numeric matrix, and be able to manipulate the 
> numbers in numpy or use them in matploblib. How can I do this?

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