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

Django has some utilities that handle this (smart_unicode, force_unicode, smart_str). Generally you just need smart_unicode.

from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode
def view(request):
    body = u""  
    for filename, f in request.FILES.items():
        body = body + 'Filename: ' + filename + '\n' + smart_unicode(f.read()) + '\n'