Django: put request.FILES in request.SESSION

Question

I'm trying to put the request.session fields in my request.session for use it later. But when I simply write:

request.session['fileInfo'] = request.FILES

I always get this error:

Pickilng error: Can't pickle <type 'cStringIO.StringO'>: attribute lookup cStringIO.StringO failed

What's the problem?

I've resolved in other way. Anyway, I needed this for keep the file for an other view. :) ps. Had you edited my question? Why? :) — Piero Alberto, Apr 03 '13 at 06:47

salezica · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-02T14:48:40.663

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The problem is sessions are transformed to strings using a standard module called pickle. pickle must be able to transform all objects in the session dict.

The request.FILES object is not pickle-able.

edited Apr 02 '13 at 14:48

answered Apr 02 '13 at 14:42

salezica

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Your final point is not really true, the session data itself isn't stored in the cookie, just the ID. The data is in the session storage backend, which is usually the database. – Daniel Roseman Apr 02 '13 at 14:46
Right you are. I removed the offending sentence – salezica Apr 02 '13 at 14:48

Django: put request.FILES in request.SESSION

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