How do you convert a string obj to a file obj?

[Esben Pedersen]

Matthew Thorley wrote:
> I'm writing a web app whereby a user uploads a tar acrhive which is then
> opened and processed. My web form reads the file like this:
> 
> while 1:
>     data = value.file.read(1024 * 8) # Read blocks of 8KB at a time
>     if not data: break
> 
> which leaves me with data as a string obj. The problem that I have is
> that the function that processes the archive expects a file object. So
> far the only solution I have found it to write the file to disk and then
> read it back.
> 
> Is there an easy way to convert data, in the example above into a file
> object?
> 
> Thanks
> -Matthew

value.file is a file object. Why don't you give that as an argument?

/Esben