[Zope] blob and ZMySQLDA

[Andy Dustman]

On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 16:46, John Hunter wrote:
> 
> I am trying to create a user interface in zope to a mysql database
> that has a BLOB entry.  I would like the user to be able to specify a
> file on the user's filesystem, and put that binary file into the
> database.
> 
> I am not sure how best to do this.  Does anyone have an example of an
> SQL method or external method that takes a file from the users system
> and puts it in as a binary blob into and SQL database?

A BLOB is just a string, as far as MySQLdb is concerned.

> Is it possible to do without first loading entire the contents of the
> file into memory?

Nope.

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