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

[John Abel]

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
>  
>
fileObj = StringIO.StringIO()
fileObj.write( data )

J