I have test request.vars.file_field.file, it can only be accesssed after 
the whole file is uploaded.Should I do it at a lower level?

On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 11:41:28 AM UTC+8, Charles Tang wrote:
>
> Can the request.vars.file_fileid.file be accessed before the video is 
> completely uploaded?
>
> On Monday, June 4, 2012 11:36:35 PM UTC+8, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>
>> The file is in request.vars.file_field.file which is a read-only stream. 
>> You can shutil.copyfile it to a temporary folder.
>>
>> On Friday, 14 January 2011 18:56:41 UTC-6, 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
>>
>>

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