[Zope] HELP: CST and python scripts

[Paul Winkler]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:33:44PM -0700, Aseem Mohanty wrote:
> oh crap. i had a script that put in all form data into the session for 
> error-tracking and I was inserting a file object in a file upload form 
> to it too.
> 
> so how do I check if the object is a file or not in thte python script?
> 
> currently I do:
> 
> for key in form.keys:
>    try:
>        x = key.filename
>    except AttributeError:
>        data.set(...)
> 
> that seems to be the dumb way to go... is there any better way to do do it.

that's actually a pretty pythonic thing to do.
(but remember that keys is a method, not a list - so call it, 
put parentheses in there.)

OTOH, if you don't need to keep the filename and you're just 
using it as a test, you could do this:

for key in form.keys(): 
    if hasattr(key, "filename"):
       # it's a file
    else:
       # it's not

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