Matthew Thorley wrote: > Esben Pedersen 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 >> >> >> value.file is a file object. Why don't you give that as an argument? >> >> /Esben > > Ok I tried that but I still get this error. Any clue what I need to do? > > AttributeError: 'file' object has no attribute 'rfind'
str has an rfind() method while file has not: >>> file.rfind Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? AttributeError: type object 'file' has no attribute 'rfind' >>> str.rfind <method 'rfind' of 'str' objects> So "the function" seems to expect a string rather than a file. Or perhaps there's an (evil) isinstance(param, file) check somewhere that triggers param to be treated as a filename. Absent further information, only you can find out. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
