file uploader

[Sick Monkey]

I never heard a response back concerning my previous question, so I decided
to write my own function.  If anyone has a simpler way of checking to see if
a file already exists (prior to uploading to a server) and renaming it,
please let me know.

Here is the code that I am using (it runs exactly the same as the linux app
'arcgen').

<%
import os,string
filename = "whoa.mp3"
dir_path = "/u01/"
i = 0
while os.path.exists(dir_path+filename):
  #filename=string.replace(filename, ".-0",".-1")
  if i == 0:
     filename = "%s.-%s" % (filename,i)
  else:
     t = i-1
     filename=string.replace(filename,".-%s" % (t),".-%s" % (i))
  i += 1
req.write(filename)
%>

The directory contains the following files: "whoa.mp3" and "whoa.mp3.-0".
This code will output "whoa.mp3.-1".

On 5/9/07, Sick Monkey <sickcodemonkey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey guys.  I wanted to write a little desktop application that would
> upload files to an external server, to a specific directory.
>
> The desktop application is running on Mac OS X and I built a .psp script
> that is running on a Red Hat server.
> NOTE:  This application is written for Python 2.5 (both py and psp)
>
> My code is giving me problems, in that it is overwriting files.  I was
> wondering if anyone knew of a module or a method that would overcome this
> dilemma.   I can adapt my program to search to see if the file existed
> already in the directory and append a random string sequence to keep this
> from occurring, but I do not want to reinvent the wheel (if such a thing
> exists) and that would clutter up my program.  :)
>
> Here is what I am currently using:
>
>  fname = os.path.basename(uploadFile.filename)
>  dir_path = "/u01"
>  open(os.path.join(dir_path, fname), 'wb').write(uploadFile.file.read())
>
> As always, any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> .dave
>
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