[Zope] upload file from filename

[John Ziniti]

You really need to send in the "filename" as the value of a
browser "<input type=file>" form element.  In short, the
file name is not enough info ... the form element passes in
a file handle as well, allowing the upload.

Ziniti

John Hunter wrote:

>>From a Python Script, given a string which is a filename on the local
>filesystem, say,
>
>    thisFile = 'C:\\ProgramFiles\\SomeDir\\somefile.dat'
>
>How can I upload this to the zope filesystem?
>
>I naively tried:
>
>    folder.manage_addFile(id='somefile.dat', file=thisFile )
>
>But of course this created a file somefile.dat with contents
>'somefile.dat' because the 'file' argument contains the content, not
>the name, of the file.
>
>Any suggestions?
>Thanks,
>John Hunter 
>
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