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

Anurag's answer is correct. However another problem here is you can't for certain know the encoding of the files that users upload. It may be useful to loop over a tuple of the most common ones till you get the correct one:

encodings = ('windows-xxx', 'iso-yyy', 'utf-8',)
for e in encodings:
    try:
        data = f.read().decode(e)
        break
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
        pass