How can I get the file name from request FILES

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How can I get the file name from request FILES in Django    def upload request       if request method     POST           form   UploadForm request POST  request FILES          if form is valid                upload   Upload               upload timestamp   datetime datetime now               save instance form  upload    I tried using this but it did not work     if  filename   in request FILES           filename   request FILES  filename

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NOTE if you are using python 3 x   request FILES is a multivalue dictionary like object that keeps the files uploaded through an upload file button  Say in your html code the name of the button  type  file   is  myfile  so  myfile  will be the key in this dictionary  If you uploaded one file  then the value for this key will be only one and if you uploaded multiple files  then you will have multiple values for that specific key  If you use request FILES  myfile   you will get the first or last value  I cannot say for sure   This is fine if you only uploaded one file  but if you want to get all files you should do this    list     myfile is the key of a multi value dictionary  values are the uploaded files for f in request FILES getlist  myfile     myfile is the name of your html file button     filename   f name     list append filename    of course one can squeeze the whole thing in one line  but this is easy to understand

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request FILES  filename   name   From the request documentation   If you don t know the key  you can iterate over the files   for filename  file in request FILES iteritems        name   request FILES filename  name

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The answer may be outdated  since there is a name property on the UploadedFile class  See  Uploaded Files and Upload Handlers  Django docs   So  if you bind your form with a FileField correctly  the access should be as easy as   if form is valid        form cleaned data  my file   name

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file   request FILES  filename   file name             Gives name file content type     Gives Content type text html etc file size             Gives file s size in byte file read             Reads file

[django] How can I get the file name from request.FILES?

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