python appengine form-posted utf8 file issue
- by khany
hi,
i am trying to form-post a sql file that consists on many INSERTS, eg.
INSERT INTO `TABLE` VALUES ('abcdé', 2759);
then i use re.search to parse it and extract the fields to put into my own datastore. The problem is that, although the file contains accented characters (see the e is a é), once uploaded it loses it and either errors or stores a bytestring representation of it.
Heres what i am currently using (and I have tried loads of alternatives):
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
uFile = form['sql']
uSql = uFile.file.read()
lineX = uSql.split("\n") # to get each line
and so on.
has anyone got a robust way of making this work? remember i am on appengine so access to some libraries is restricted/forbidden
