Question

When someone clicks Submit after selecting a file with the <input type="file"> element, how do I access the contents of the file in Django?

(It seems like the request sent to the request handler has no trace of the file anywhere — not even in request.FILES.)

Currently my template is like:

<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
 <input type="file" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="file" accept="text/csv"/>
 <input type="submit" value="Upload" />
</form>

View:

def HandleRequest(request):
  print "**** request:", request

I don’t see anything being printed about the file.

Note:

There’s probably other ways to do this in Django, but I’m looking a solution using the simple input tag, and not something else (which would probably involve Javascript).

Answer 1

The code you posted, as it is posted, works fine. The HTML is sound (though I think the enctype on the <input> is redundant at best), and a very simple view shows an InMemoryFile after the POST. The problem must lie in something between the browser and your view. Some things to check:

• Middleware.
• Apache.
• Nginx.
• Decorators on your view.
• mod_wsgi configuration.