Django dislaying upload file content

Question

hello, i have an application that loads different documents to the server, and allows users to read documents' content. i am uploading the documents to the server, and then i try to read the courses by id, like:

 def view_course(request,id):
  u = Courses.objects.get(pk=id)

etc

But i don't find anywhere : how can i actually read the content of a /.doc/.pdf/.txt and display it on a web page?

thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Reading plain text files is trivial, while PDF and Word processing is not. For the latter two you'll have to incorporate some external libraries.

• Text: f.read()

• Word: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/125222/extracting-text-from-ms-word-files-in-python

• PDF: http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/index.html