how to handle a media file without save it in django

Question

In my django project, I received a media file posted from client. like this

def upload(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = UploadFileForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
        if form.is_valid():
            handle_uploaded_file(request.FILES['file'], request.POST['fid'])
            return JsonResponse({"result":"ok"})
    return JsonResponse({"result":"failed","msg":"unkown"})


def handle_uploaded_file(f, fid):
    with open(STEP_DIR + '/' + fid, 'wb+') as destination:
        for chunk in f.chunks():
            destination.write(chunk)

On the other hand, I want to process this file by another module. And this module will open a file and handle it like this:

Import thirdModule
thirdModule.open('path_to_url').exporter(...)

As the thirdModule will open a file by a given path. So I have to save the file which I had just received from django ?
Is there any way I can process the file directly with out save it.like is:

def handle_uploaded_file(f, fid):
    thirdModule.open(convert_media_to_stream(f))
    ...

Answer 1

if form.is_valid():
    data = form.cleaned_data
    inmemory_uploaded_file = data['file_field_name']
    file_name = str(inmemory_uploaded_file)
    process_file_without_saving_into_disk(inmemory_uploaded_file)
    # rest of your code

Update

def handle_upload(file, file_name, upload_path):
    if not os.path.exists(upload_path):
        os.mkdir(upload_path)

    file_path = os.path.join(upload_path, file_name)
    with open(file_path, 'wb+') as destination:
        for chunk in file.chunks():
            destination.write(chunk)
    return file_path