I've been asked to convert a Python application into a Django one but I'm totally new to Django.
I have the following problem, when I upload a file text that must be read to save its content into a database I find that Django is striping the "extra" whitespaces and I must keep those whitespaces.
This is my template
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
{% if newdoc %}
<ul>
{% for line in newdoc %}
<li>{{ line }} </li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
{% endif %}
<form action="{% url 'exam:upload' %}" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" content-type="text/plain">
{% csrf_token %}
<p>{{ form.non_field_errors }}</p>
<p>{{ form.docfile.label_tag }} {{ form.docfile.help_text }}</p>
<p>
{{ form.docfile.errors }}
{{ form.docfile }}
</p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Upload" /></p>
</form>
</body>
This is what I have in the views.py
def upload(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = DocumentForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
if form.is_valid():
newdoc = request.FILES['docfile']
form = DocumentForm()
return render(request, 'exam/upload.html', {'newdoc': newdoc, 'form': form})
else:
form = DocumentForm() # A empty, unbound form
return render(request, 'exam/upload.html', {
'form': form,
})
And this is my forms.py:
from django import forms
class DocumentForm(forms.Form):
docfile = forms.FileField(
label='Select a file',
help_text='max. 42 megabytes'
)
Now when I upload the file, it shows a random line like this:
"09000021009296401 02 b a b a b b b d b b d d a +8589 +03+6942 +03+1461 +00+5093 +00+2 +00+9237 +01+60 +01+00 +00"
While it should be this:
"09000021009296401 02 b a b a b b b d b b d d a +8589 +03+6942 +03+1461 +00+5093 +00+2 +00+9237 +01+60 +01+00 +00 "
I must keep the extra spaces and they save this information into a database, which I cannot correctly do if I don't have all the spaces that the file has.
Also, before you ask, It is not related with the print format of Django, since in a previous test I already tryed to save the information into the model, but it has the same problem with spaces.
Thanks everyone.
