Hey Ana,

Thanks for the sending this along. This looks pretty slick.

The fastest path to seeing something like this in the client would be
to send us a pull request via GitHub.

https://github.com/basho/riak-python-client

You have a few minutes to put one together?

Mark

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Ana Nelson <nelson....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just implemented this in a project:
>
>             binary_data = open(self.filename(), "rb").read()
>             mimetype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(self.filename())
>             if not mimetype:
>
>                 mimetype = 'application/octet-stream' # Riak's own default
>             self.riak_object = self.bucket.new_binary(
>                 self.hashstring,
>                 binary_data,
>                 mimetype
>
>             )
>
> which writes binary data to a Riak bucket from a file, using Python's
> mimetypes library to determine the content type from the file's extension.
>
> I think it could be convenient to have this be included in the Riak Python
> client, so perhaps it can implement better buffering. Something like
> bucket.new_binary_from_file(key, filename)
>
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