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PyDrive on Google App engine. Can't set the content of a GoogleDrive object from a StringIO object

File creation is forbidden in Google App Engine standard applications.

Even tempfile is disabled, except for TemporaryFile which is aliased to StringIO. So I need to set content of drive file with a StringIO object.

The only suitable method I found is SetContentString().

But the method is expecting a utf-8 string and I get a decode exception -

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

My code

drive = GoogleDrive(get_drive_auth())
drive_file = drive.CreateFile()
drive_file.SetContentString(stringio_object.getvalue())

Is there a way I could set the content of a GoogleDrive object from StringIO object?

Solution

  • I got answer on GitHub.

    It is not documented, but you can set content of GoogleDrive object directly

    drive = GoogleDrive(get_drive_auth())
drive_file = drive.CreateFile()
drive_file.content = stringio_object