Thanks, Dave. Your suggestion made the answer click for me. Embarrassingly,
for some reason I got it in my head that both the upload directory and the
upload file name were located in the db record for a given item :-( Once
it clicked that the directory comes from the schema and only the filename
comes from the db record it all worked of course.
On Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 11:30:59 AM UTC-7, jim kaubisch wrote:
>
>
> In several forms I have fields like to one below
>
> Field('the_file' , 'upload' , label=T('Audio File *'),
> default = False,
>
> uploadfolder=os.path.join(request.folder,'uploads/resources/audio')
> ),
>
>
> When I delete the db record containing the result of processing the field
> above, I also want to delete the actual uploaded file.
>
> If I "print" db.audios.the_file I get a sensible file name, e.g.
> "audios.the_file.87f39e4b2eac56a2.7331343035323830332e706466.mp3"
> but - if I pass db.audios.the_file to os.path.join, I get an exception -
> "EXCEPTION
> = join() argument must be str or bytes, not 'Field'"
> and - if I pass str(db.audios.the_file) to os.path.join I end up with
> something ending in 'uploads/resources/audio/the_file'
>
> Simple question. How do I get the name of the uploaded file in a form I
> can use in os.path.join
>
> Thanks
>
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