[Fixed]-How to pass django FileField file content to urllib2 for a POST request?

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Using the BlackBlaze python directory pusher for reference and assuming that file_content is a file-like object (like Django’s UploadedFile), I’d suggest you try passing the file-like object file_content rather than string file_contents to the urllib2.Request constructor.

Relevant bits from the file I linked are:

class OpenUrl(object):
    """
    Context manager that handles an open urllib2.Request, and provides
    the file-like object that is the response.
    """

    def __init__(self, url, data, headers):
        self.url = url
        self.data = data
        self.headers = headers
        self.file = None

    def __enter__(self):
        try:
            request = urllib2.Request(self.url, self.data, self.headers)
            self.file = urllib2.urlopen(request)
            return self.file
        except urllib2.HTTPError as e:
            pass # edited

and

def post_file(url, headers, file_path):
    """Posts the contents of the file to the URL.

    URL-encodes all of the data in the headers before sending.
    """
    with open(file_path, 'rb') as data_file:
        if 'Content-Length' not in headers:
            headers['Content-Length'] = str(os.path.getsize(file_path))
        encoded_headers = dict(
            (k, b2_url_encode(v)) for (k, v) in headers.iteritems()
        )
        with OpenUrl(url, data_file, encoded_headers) as response_file:
            json_text = response_file.read()
            return json.loads(json_text)
👤Andrei Avram

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