John Abel wrote: > Matthew Thorley wrote: > >> I'm writing a web app whereby a user uploads a tar acrhive which is then >> opened and processed. My web form reads the file like this: >> >> while 1: >> data = value.file.read(1024 * 8) # Read blocks of 8KB at a time >> if not data: break >> >> which leaves me with data as a string obj. The problem that I have is >> that the function that processes the archive expects a file object. So >> far the only solution I have found it to write the file to disk and then >> read it back. >> >> Is there an easy way to convert data, in the example above into a file >> object? >> >> Thanks >> -Matthew >> >> > fileObj = StringIO.StringIO() > fileObj.write( data ) > > J >
I gave that a shot but got this error? Perhaps I misunderstood what kind of object I needed. Any thoughts? AttributeError: StringIO instance has no attribute 'rfind' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
