Parse multipart request string in Python

Question

I have a string like this

"--5b34210d81fb44c5a0fdc1a1e5ce42c3\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"author\"\r\n\r\nJohn Smith\r\n--5b34210d81fb44c5a0fdc1a1e5ce42c3\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example2.txt\"\r\nContent-Type: text/plain\r\nExpires: 0\r\n\r\nHello World\r\n--5b34210d81fb44c5a0fdc1a1e5ce42c3--\r\n"

I also have request headers available in other vairbles.

How do I easily parse this with Python3?

I am handling a file upload in AWS Lambda via API Gateway, request body and headers are available via Python dicts.

There are other similar questions on stackoverflow, but most are assuming use of the requests module or other modules and expect the request details to be in a specific object or format.

NOTE: I am aware its possible to have user upload to S3 and trigger Lambda, but I am intentionally choosing not to do that in this case.

Answer 1

It can be parsed by using something like

from requests_toolbelt.multipart import decoder
multipart_string = "--ce560532019a77d83195f9e9873e16a1\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"author\"\r\n\r\nJohn Smith\r\n--ce560532019a77d83195f9e9873e16a1\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example2.txt\"\r\nContent-Type: text/plain\r\nExpires: 0\r\n\r\nHello World\r\n--ce560532019a77d83195f9e9873e16a1--\r\n"
content_type = "multipart/form-data; boundary=ce560532019a77d83195f9e9873e16a1"
decoder.MultipartDecoder(multipart_string, content_type)