Bingo. Thanks Anthony.
On Mar 26, 11:58 am, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > Try > > ZipFile(request.vars.body.file, 'r') > > Anthony > > > > > > > > On Monday, March 26, 2012 10:18:40 AM UTC-4, Cliff 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

