Looks like your're retrieving the payload from the form field. I'd try using the value recorded in the database instead, something like:
myfile = open(db.mytable[n].body) I'm affraid I don't recall exactly how the upload mechanism works, but there is a lot of info in the online manual about it. On 26 mar, 11:18, Cliff <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an upload field called 'body.' It is meant to contain zipped > archives. > > I want to extract and parse one file from the archive. Right now I am > using ZipFile which should be able to work with a file-like object, > according to the Python docs. > > This does not work: > > This also does not work: > from StringIO import StringIO > output = StringIO() > output.write(form.vars.body) > print output # prints nothing > zippo = ZipFile(output, 'r') > > ZipFile complains that the input is not a zip file. Not surprising > because the call to print showed nothing. > > Can anyone give me a clue what I'm doing wrong? > > Thanks, > Cliff Kachinske
