I am currently working on a Flask webapp to use the sentence picker script I am developing for Tatoeba as part of GSoC.
So, I need to take the txt file of an open text as input from the user. I made the form accept the file, send it as a post function to my view. The view accepted the file, did a little validation and tried to print back the type of the object returned from the form on the console.
I tried testing it. The form appeared. Nothing wrong. I had to select a file to upload. Clicked browse, pressed f randomly, and found foo.txt on my Desktop. It was a pretty small file, worked for me. Pressed upload, and learned that it was a FileStorage object. Read the documentation, learned that I needed to call read() (simple to a File obj) to get the text. Changed the code accordingly to print whatever was returned on calling read.
So, the console printed,
fd = 1
Should not see this either.
Hmm. Probably, you couldn't just read a file like that without saving it or something. And what I was doing right now was returning the file descriptor's integer and an internal warning saying, I shouldn't be reading this.
I really don't know what I was thinking. But certainly this wasn't working.
After spending 3-4 hours on it, disturbing the org irc and searching everywhere, I felt like giving up and look into other methods of getting text as an input. Another day went waste.
Out of curiosity, I ended up opening foo.txt to see what it really had.
So. Yes. That happened. I had been reading the file right since the beginning. The file contained the text,
fd = 1
Should not see this either.
Lesson Learned. I feel like a complete asinine right now.
Ps. In retrospect, if I were expecting to get the fd of the newly opened file, it should have been 3. Here.
So, I need to take the txt file of an open text as input from the user. I made the form accept the file, send it as a post function to my view. The view accepted the file, did a little validation and tried to print back the type of the object returned from the form on the console.
I tried testing it. The form appeared. Nothing wrong. I had to select a file to upload. Clicked browse, pressed f randomly, and found foo.txt on my Desktop. It was a pretty small file, worked for me. Pressed upload, and learned that it was a FileStorage object. Read the documentation, learned that I needed to call read() (simple to a File obj) to get the text. Changed the code accordingly to print whatever was returned on calling read.
So, the console printed,
fd = 1
Should not see this either.
Hmm. Probably, you couldn't just read a file like that without saving it or something. And what I was doing right now was returning the file descriptor's integer and an internal warning saying, I shouldn't be reading this.
I really don't know what I was thinking. But certainly this wasn't working.
After spending 3-4 hours on it, disturbing the org irc and searching everywhere, I felt like giving up and look into other methods of getting text as an input. Another day went waste.
Out of curiosity, I ended up opening foo.txt to see what it really had.
So. Yes. That happened. I had been reading the file right since the beginning. The file contained the text,
fd = 1
Should not see this either.
Lesson Learned. I feel like a complete asinine right now.
Ps. In retrospect, if I were expecting to get the fd of the newly opened file, it should have been 3. Here.
hahaha!! I can completely get that feel man! Once during my gsoc I was building my app in another directory and making changes in another one :P after 3-4 hours I realised that :P
ReplyDeleteBrought back to memories my SoC days ! :D
:thunderous applause:
ReplyDeleteNow you will never read another file programmatically without looking at it first in a text editor. Ever!