Apparently problem solved and not Web2py related. I needed to use
open(path, 'rb').read() and encodestring instead of trying to encode the
file directly. Thank you for responding.
On Friday, July 24, 2015 at 3:58:00 PM UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> before we answer that question. What are you trying to do?
>
> On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 01:34:05 UTC-5, Phillip wrote:
>>
>> In the controller in a json service function, I download a stored file of
>> type 'upload' as follows:
>>
>> filecontents = URL('download', args=db.s_files[1].s_file)
>>
>> encoded = base64.b64encode(filecontents)
>>
>> return encoded
>>
>> Is this the right way to encode stored files? I am expecting a much
>> larger encoded string
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>
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