[Answered ]-Zlib in database – Django

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Like Marcus says, you’ll have to use BLOB if you want to keep it in binary format. If you’re OK with encoding it, you can use base64 encoding:

from base64 import binascii

f = VCFile(head = binascii.b2a_base64('blahblah'.encode('zlib')))

In my very basic tests with 33k characters, the zlib string was 28% the size of the original string, the base64 encoded zlib string was 37% the size of the original string. Not quite as good on compression, but still a big improvement.

👤tghw

[Answered ]-How to make dynamic form

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If you don’t want to encode it, you have to store it as a binary object (BLOB), not a string. Django doesn’t seem to support BlobFields out of the box, so go find it on the net or hack something together.

👤Macke