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Need to get the uploaded file to my local PC

Answer 1

+1 A:

mod_python includes the FieldStorage class which allows you access to uploaded form data. In order to use it, you'd put something like the following in your Python script:

req.form = FieldStorage(req)
description = req.form['fdesc']

Since fdesc is a text input, description will be a string (more precisely, a StringField, which you can treat as a string).

file_field = req.form['fname']

Since fname is a file input, file_field will not be a string (or StringField), but rather a Field object which allows you access to the file data. The attribute file_field.file is a file-like object which you can use to read the file's contents, for example like so:

for line in file_field.file:
    # process the line

You could use this to copy the file's data somewhere of your choosing, for example.

file_field.filename is the name of the file as provided by the client. Other useful attributes are listed in the documentation I linked to.

David Zaslavsky 2010-05-21 08:38:58

David, I am not able to get it working, i think i am doing it wrong way, can you give me some example.

Suhail 2010-05-21 09:32:15

I did. There are a few lines of example code in my answer and there are more complete examples at the links I gave you. If you've gone through those and haven't been able to figure out why your code isn't working, post a new question (since "why doesn't this work" is a separate question from "how do I do it"), and make sure to include your code and the details of your error message.

David Zaslavsky 2010-05-21 13:06:50

Hey David, i got it working, thanks for the help.

Suhail 2010-05-22 07:39:52

Great :-) If my answer helped it'd be nice to have an upvote

David Zaslavsky 2010-05-22 11:45:53

Answer 2

A:

Maybie the minimal http cgi upload recipe and it's comments are helpful for you.

Joschua 2010-05-21 08:41:20

Answer 3

A:

Hey David i got it working, i did it this way:

filename = request.FILES['fname']
destination = open('%s/%s'%(/tmp/,fileName), 'wb+')
for chunk in filename.chunks():
            destination.write(chunk)
destination.close()

file = open('%s/%s'%(/tmp/,fileName),"rb").read()

Thanks for the help guys.

Suhail 2010-05-22 07:39:30

It's fine to post your code as an answer if nobody else's answer is sufficient, but you probably shouldn't write it as if you're responding to someone else.

David Zaslavsky 2010-05-22 11:47:08

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