Well, I guess what I'm confused about is adding data that doesn't come
directly from forms.
I ended up doing this and it seemed to work.
for line in file:
b=Book()
b.title=line
b.save()
Thanks
On May 17, 3:41 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Patrick <whya...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Filenames is also a table, but I'm interested in the data withing the
> > file.
>
> > On May 17, 2:38 pm, Antoni Aloy <antoni.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 2009/5/17 Patrick <whya...@gmail.com>:
>
> > > > How do I add data from a fileupload to a database?
> > > > For example, if I have a Book model that is for names of books and a
> > > > FileNames model that is used on a form, how do I populate Book.title.
>
> > > > class FileNames(models.Model):
> > > > title = models.FileField(upload_to='tmp', blank=False)
>
> > > > class Book(models.Model):
> > > > title = models.CharField(max_length=30)
>
> > > > I'm able to upload and parse the file. I'm just not sure how to add
> > > > the parsed data to Book.
>
> > > So FileNames is not a real table? I'm confused ...
>
> > > Please checkhttp://
> > docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/file-uploads/
> > > it would help you a lot to deal with file uploads.
>
> > > --
> > > Antoni Aloy López
> > > Blog:http://trespams.com
> > > Site:http://apsl.net
>
> Getting an instance of a FileName and accessing .title on it will give you a
> file like object you can work with normally and extract whatever information
> you want from it. I'm not 100% sure I understand your question.
>
> Alex
>
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