I am glad to say that this problem is a windows problem. My local host is a
windows machine, but this is just for testing. My actual server is a linux
machine and dropbox put_file works fine on the linux machine.
Peter
On Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:17:28 UTC+1, peter wrote:
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> This is not exactly a web2py issue, but other users might have useful
> input, and the answer will maybe help others. I am trying to put a file
> onto dropbox. After setting everything up, I do
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> f = open('myfile.zip')
> client.put_file('myfile.zip',f)
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> If the file is a small textfile it works fine. However with a zipfile of
> only 720KB I get.
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\Users\Peter\web2pyn\gluon\restricted.py", line 205, in restricted
> exec ccode in environment
> File "C:/Users/Peter/web2pyn/applications/new_spin2/controllers/default.py"
> <http://127.0.0.1:8002/admin/default/edit/new_spin2/controllers/default.py>,
> line 594, in <module>
> File "C:\Users\Peter\web2pyn\gluon\globals.py", line 173, in <lambda>
> self._caller = lambda f: f()
> File "C:/Users/Peter/web2pyn/applications/new_spin2/controllers/default.py"
> <http://127.0.0.1:8002/admin/default/edit/new_spin2/controllers/default.py>,
> line 576, in backup_to_dropbox
> client.put_file('f1/'+'abc.zip',f)
> File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\dropbox\client.py", line 352, in put_file
> return self.rest_client.PUT(url, file_obj, headers)
> File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\dropbox\rest.py", line 265, in PUT
> return cls.IMPL.PUT(*n, **kw)
> File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\dropbox\rest.py", line 211, in PUT
> return self.request("PUT", url, body=body, headers=headers,
> raw_response=raw_response)
> File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\dropbox\rest.py", line 174, in request
> raise util.AnalyzeFileObjBug(clen, bytes_read)
> AnalyzeFileObjBug:
> Expected file object to have 736338 bytes, instead we read 201 bytes.
> File size detection may have failed (see dropbox.util.AnalyzeFileObj)
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> I have googled this with no joy.
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> Any suggestions
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> Peter
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