I have the same problem. How did you sovle it?
On Saturday, January 15, 2011 8:56:41 AM UTC+8, Thomas Dall'Agnese wrote:
>
> Dear community,
>
> I have a form with an upload field that I use to upload a text file,
> parse information from this file and store this information into the
> database, but not the file itself.
>
> The form is for example defined by:
> form = FORM(INPUT(_name='file_field', _type = 'file', requires =
> IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
> INPUT(_type='submit'))
>
> I can access the file content with request.vars.file_field.file.read()
> but this function does not detect the file encoding and open all my
> file as utf-8.
> So instead I would like to use codecs.open(xxx, "r", charset) to
> define the charset (utf-8, iso-8859-1, ...).
> However, as I don't store the file, I can't find the file in the
> uploads/ directory.
> How can I find the temporary file path if there is any?
>
> Or do you have any suggestion to read the uploaded file with the right
> encoding (without chardet)?
>
> Best regards,
>
> $p00ky
