Works great. Thx!
On Sep 12, 11:26 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > You should be able to just do > > infile=os.path.join(request.folder,'static/x/y.mp3') > db.audio.insert( > book=row.queue.book, > name=db.audio.name.store(open(infile,'rb'),'dummy.mp3') > ) > > store uses shutil.copyfileobj inside > > On Sep 12, 10:09 am, weheh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have a pre-existing file, static/x/y.mp3, that I want to copy to an > > upload record. > > > # model > > db.define_table('audio', > > Field('name','upload',length=50,label=T('Upload > > file'),autodelete=True, > > uploadfolder=os.path.join(request.folder,'static/audio'), > > uploadseparate=True, > > requires=IS_UPLOAD_FILENAME(extension='mp3'), > > ) > > ) > > > I want to use shutil.copyfileobj to do the copying since the audio > > file is very large. What would the syntax be to insert a new record > > into the audio table using shutil.copyfileobj? In particular, I don't > > understand what the destination file should be? > > > p.s. > > I had tried using cStringIO, but that didn't work -- the stored file > > was empty: > > > infile=os.path.join(request.folder,'static/x/y.mp3') > > stream=cStringIO.StringIO() > > stream.write(open(infile,'rb').read()) > > db.audio.insert( > > book=row.queue.book, > > name=db.audio.name.store(stream,'dummy.mp3') > > ) > > > Anyway, cStringIO is not the way to go. The file to be copied is too > > large. > > > Thanks. > >
