Sorry guys, apparently I found a solution, but... Well I swear I tried it before, but now it's working. I did this:
try: tarfile.open(fileobj=file) except: raise forms.ValidationError(msg2) Anyway. Cheers, Alan On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 21:18, Alan <alanwil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for the hint, however, they only applies to tar archive file (give > by path) and not to 'file objects' as you get from "file = > self.cleaned_data['file']" in django models. > > More specifically, how to make class tarfile to > handle django.core.files.uploadedfile.InMemoryUploadedFile objects. > > Any help is always welcome. Thanks in advance, > Alan > > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:09, Paul van der Linden <p...@soulbase.nl>wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> look at the module reference at python documentation: >> http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/module-tarfile.html >> You can see there an is_tarfile to check if it is a tar file, or you can >> use TarFileCompat to check if it is a tar_gzipped file. >> Alan wrote: >> > Hi There, >> > >> > So I have a form where users can upload zip and tgz file. In my def >> > clean_file() for class MyForm, I can clean zip files smoothly and now >> > I am trying the same for a tgz file but missing things. >> > >> > First, fileobj = self.cleaned_data['file'] will return a fileobj, so I >> > tried: >> > >> > tar = tarfile.open(fileobj=fileobj) >> > >> > but then I cannot do anything with 'tar'. I mean, tar.list() returns >> > nothing. Even worse, my fileobj can be any thing, a 'zip' for example, >> > and tarfile.open doesn't seem to check for that as it does if it was a >> > file like 'myfile.tgz' or 'myfile.zip', failing to open for the former. >> > >> > I tried google and also StringIO, but without success. All I want is >> > to check if the supposed tgz file is a valid tgz file as I do for a >> > zip file. >> > >> > Many thanks in avance, >> > Alan >> > >> > -- >> > Alan Wilter S. da Silva, D.Sc. - CCPN Research Associate >> > Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. >> > 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK. >> > >>http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/~awd28 <http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/%7Eawd28><< >> > >> > > >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Alan Wilter S. da Silva, D.Sc. - CCPN Research Associate > Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. > 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK. > >>http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/~awd28<< > -- Alan Wilter S. da Silva, D.Sc. - CCPN Research Associate Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK. >>http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/~awd28<< --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---