python - django form with multiple file fields

Question

How do you handle multiple file fields in Django. For example if I had only one form field i would pass the request.FILES['file'] to a handling function. But what is the way to go when there are more files?

Answer 1

I'm late to the party, but I've been trying to figure this out for a while and finally have a solution. Have a look at the code used here: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/12446

You can access multipart values with getlist. If my HTML form was:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="" method="post">
<input type="file" name="myfiles" multiple>
<input type="submit" name="upload" value="Upload">
</form>

My django code to process it would look like:

for afile in request.FILES.getlist('myfiles'):
    # do something with afile

Writing a form field/widget to handle this properly is my next step. I'm still rather new to using Django, so I'm learning as I go.