UnicodeDecodeError with Django's request.FILES

Question

I have the following code in the view call..

def view(request):
    body = u\"\"  
    for filename, f in request.FILES.items():
        body = body + \'Filename         


        

Answer 1

If you are not in control of the file encoding for files that can be uploaded , you can guess what encoding a file is in using the Universal Encoding Detector module chardet.