I apparently solved this. I needed to add "uploads/" between the request.folder and the filename I got from the blob object when concatenating the path since the files are stored in the "uploads" folder. I missed this in my first attempts.
Kari On Feb 3, 10:51 am, kari <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to read a csv file consisting of one row, split its contents to > values and then do some calculations with these values and store > results of these calculations in a database that already has some > fields filled and a record id. I would like the users to be offered a > file open dialog for choosing the file. I am thinking of saving the > csv file to a blob field with (Field('csvfile','upload') but I am > uncertain how can I read the contents of the blob and convert it to a > numpy array for calculations. > > Can the blob be treated as a file stream? > > In addition, my simple attempts to try to retrieve the contents of the > blob (opening the file saved) appear to result in an error that the > file is not found when I try to reference it by the 'csvfile' name > saved. Appadmin shows a 'file' link that offers to download the file - > but I have not been able to solve how this works. > > Any suggestions? Or alternative solutions to solve the problem? > > Many thanks, Kari -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
