how to unit test file upload in django

Question

In my django app, I have a view which accomplishes file upload.The core snippet is like this

...
if  (request.method == \'POST\'):
    if request.FILES.has_         


        

Answer 1

In Django 1.7 there's an issue with the TestCase wich can be resolved by using open(filepath, 'rb') but when using the test client we have no control over it. I think it's probably best to ensure file.read() returns always bytes.

source: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/23912, by KevinEtienne

Without rb option, a TypeError is raised:

TypeError: sequence item 4: expected bytes, bytearray, or an object with the buffer interface, str found