Why do the seek(0)? Would the pointer not be at zero anyway?
On Friday, March 30, 2012 6:43:14 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > yes and no. The file is not loaded in memory and then written to file. It > is uploaded into temp (request.vars.field.file points to the temp file) > then shuil.copyfile from temp to the destination. You can compute the hash > from request.vars.field.file then request.vars.field.file.seek(0) > > On Friday, 30 March 2012 13:51:18 UTC-5, Anthony wrote: >> >> Let me put it this way: >>> Can I determine the hash of an uploaded file during the upload process >>> (when the form is submitted) and before it is actually stored on the >>> filesystem? >>> >> >> I haven't been following this thread, but that sounds doable. When the >> file is uploaded, request.vars.file.file will hold the file object, and >> request.vars.file.filename will hold the original filename, so you could do >> something with those values before calling form.process(). You can also >> specify an onvalidation function via form.process(..., >> onvalidation=myvalidation), and I believe the function will be called >> before the file is stored. >> >> Anthony >> >
