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    copied!<p>forgive me if this is a bit of a newbie question, I started to learn Django yesterday, and I'm trying not to get into bad habits, i.e. I am trying to do things "the django way" from the start.</p> <p>I have a view that recieves binary data as a http post field. Now Django of course autoconverts my binary data to a unicode string.</p> <p>My question is, how do I just get the raw binary data?</p> <p>A couple of things occurred to me. Let <code>request</code> be the request I'm processing.</p> <ul> <li>Using <code>request.raw_post_data</code> would involve parsing the data <em>again</em> - when appearantly <code>request.POST</code> actually stores raw data and I am actually just trying to get around the on-the-fly conversion (and besides, that is new in the development version).</li> <li>Using base64 or so to transfer the data would work, but seems like too much overhead when the data transfer itself is not the problem.</li> <li>doing <code>request.encoding="foo"</code> before getting that field (and reassigning afterwards) doesn't work either because I still get a unicode string, besides feeling like a bit of a dirty hack. Using <code>"base64"</code> here (not as bad as for the transfer encoding) gives me an <code>AssertionError</code>.</li> </ul> <p>Thanks in advance for your ideas!</p> <p>EDIT: To clarify - I am not talking about a classic file upload here, but as binary data stored in a POST field. I'd like to do it that way because the only way I want to interface with that view is via an upload script. Using a normal POST field makes both the client and the server much simpler in that case.</p>
 

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