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authorSean Reifscheider <jafo@tummy.com>2007-09-18 23:39:35 (GMT)
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issue1172: Documentation of "done" attribute in cgi module.
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@@ -147,6 +147,11 @@ attribute::
if not line: break
linecount = linecount + 1
+If an error is encountered when obtaining the contents of an uploaded file
+(for example, when the user interrupts the form submission by clicking on
+a Back or Cancel button) the :attr:`done` attribute of the object for the
+field will be set to the value -1.
+
The file upload draft standard entertains the possibility of uploading multiple
files from one field (using a recursive :mimetype:`multipart/\*` encoding).
When this occurs, the item will be a dictionary-like :class:`FieldStorage` item.