Thanks for the quick reply. I am trying the temporary file in the $TMPDIR 
instead.

On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 1:26:55 PM UTC+8, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> In gluon main there is this code:
>
> request.body = copystream_progress(request) ### stores request body       
>   
>     if (request.body and request.env.request_method in ('POST', 'PUT', 
> 'BOTH')):
>         dpost = 
> cgi.FieldStorage(fp=request.body,environ=environ,keep_blank_values=1)
> request.body.seek(0)
>
> - request.body is a temporary copy of input stream (contains the multipart 
> form, which may have files in it)
> - cgi.FieldStorage(fp=request.body) parses the request stream and return a 
> dictionary of FieldStorage objects (including files that may be in there)
>
> Perhaps this helps.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, 4 June 2012 23:55:23 UTC-5, Charles Tang wrote:
>>
>> I have test request.vars.file_field.file, it can only be accesssed after 
>> the whole file is uploaded.Should I do it at a lower level?
>>
>> On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 11:41:28 AM UTC+8, Charles Tang wrote:
>>>
>>> Can the request.vars.file_fileid.file be accessed before the video is 
>>> completely uploaded?
>>>
>>> On Monday, June 4, 2012 11:36:35 PM UTC+8, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The file is in request.vars.file_field.file which is a read-only 
>>>> stream. You can shutil.copyfile it to a temporary folder.
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, 14 January 2011 18:56:41 UTC-6, Thomas Dall'Agnese wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear community, 
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a form with an upload field that I use to upload a text file, 
>>>>> parse information from this file and store this information into the 
>>>>> database, but not the file itself. 
>>>>>
>>>>> The form is for example defined by: 
>>>>> form = FORM(INPUT(_name='file_field', _type = 'file', requires = 
>>>>> IS_NOT_EMPTY()), 
>>>>>               INPUT(_type='submit')) 
>>>>>
>>>>> I can access the file content with request.vars.file_field.file.read() 
>>>>> but this function does not detect the file encoding and open all my 
>>>>> file as utf-8. 
>>>>> So instead I would like to use codecs.open(xxx, "r", charset) to 
>>>>> define the charset (utf-8, iso-8859-1, ...). 
>>>>> However, as I don't store the file, I can't find the file in the 
>>>>> uploads/ directory. 
>>>>> How can I find the temporary file path if there is any? 
>>>>>
>>>>> Or do you have any suggestion to read the uploaded file with the right 
>>>>> encoding (without chardet)? 
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards, 
>>>>>
>>>>> $p00ky
>>>>
>>>>

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