Awesome! Thanks so much for the help. Andrew
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 12:32 +0000, Tom Evans wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Andrew Marder > <andrew.n.mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm trying to add a bunch of files from disk into my django database. > > Here's the helper function I've written so far: > > > > def django_file(path, field_name, content_type): > > # adapted from here: > > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/834f988876ff3c45/ > > from django.core.files.uploadedfile import InMemoryUploadedFile > > f = open(path) > > return InMemoryUploadedFile( > > file=f, > > field_name=field_name, > > name=file.name, > > This should be 'f.name', not 'file.name'. file is a built in class in > python, and file.name is a member of that class, not your file name. > > Cheers > > Tom > > > content_type=content_type, > > size=os.path.getsize(path), > > charset=None) > > > > > > > I'm calling it like so: > > django_file("path-to-jpg-file", field_name="image", > > content_type="image/jpeg") > > > > Here's the error I'm getting: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "<console>", line 1, in <module> > > File "/home/amarder/Documents/nmis/odk_dropbox/views.py", line 49, > > in import_instances_folder > > f = django_file(xml_files[0], field_name="xml_file", > > content_type="text/xml") > > File "/home/amarder/Documents/nmis/odk_dropbox/views.py", line 70, > > in django_file > > charset=None) > > File "/home/amarder/Documents/environments/nmis/lib/python2.6/site- > > packages/django/core/files/uploadedfile.py", line 90, in __init__ > > super(InMemoryUploadedFile, self).__init__(file, name, > > content_type, size, charset) > > File "/home/amarder/Documents/environments/nmis/lib/python2.6/site- > > packages/django/core/files/uploadedfile.py", line 30, in __init__ > > super(UploadedFile, self).__init__(file, name) > > File "/home/amarder/Documents/environments/nmis/lib/python2.6/site- > > packages/django/core/files/base.py", line 17, in __init__ > > self.name = name > > File "/home/amarder/Documents/environments/nmis/lib/python2.6/site- > > packages/django/core/files/uploadedfile.py", line 46, in _set_name > > name = os.path.basename(name) > > File "/home/amarder/Documents/environments/nmis/lib/python2.6/ > > posixpath.py", line 111, in basename > > i = p.rfind('/') + 1 > > AttributeError: 'member_descriptor' object has no attribute 'rfind' > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Andrew > > > > On Nov 16, 4:36 pm, Mitch Anderson <mi...@metauser.net> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > Django doesn't want a python file or text for a django file field, it > >> > wants a django.core.files.File. I find the easiest one to use is the > >> > InMemoryUploadedFile. Here is a snippet I use for fetching an image > >> > from the web, and creating a django.core.files.File object that can be > >> > assigned to a FileField or ImageField on a model: > >> > >> > h = httplib2.Http() > >> > req, content = h.request(uri) > >> > if req['status'] != '200': > >> > print u'Failed to fetch image from %s' % uri > >> > return None > >> > >> > import cStringIO > >> > from django.core.files.uploadedfile import InMemoryUploadedFile > >> > out = cStringIO.StringIO() > >> > out.write(content) > >> > return InMemoryUploadedFile( > >> > file=out, > >> > field_name=field, > >> > name=name, > >> > content_type=req['content-type'], > >> > size=out.tell(), > >> > charset=None) > >> > >> > field should be the name of the field on the model, name should be the > >> > file name of the resource. > >> > >> > There may be neater ways of doing this, but this keeps it in memory > >> > until django saves it to the upload_to location specified on the > >> > model, and avoids writing it to disk only for django to write it to > >> > disk again. > >> > >> > Cheers > >> > >> > Tom > >> > >> Awesome that worked perfectly! Thanks Tom! > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Django users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
