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How to Parse Multipart Form Data in Python

Parse multipart/form-data uploads using the Python standard library's cgi module to extract both regular fields and file uploads.

multipart cgi form-data
Python 
import cgi
from io import BytesIO

def parse_multipart_form(headers, body_bytes):
    content_type = headers.get("Content-Type", "")
    content_length = int(headers.get("Content-Length", len(body_bytes)))
    
    # Create a file-like object from bytes for cgi.FieldStorage
    body_file = BytesIO(body_bytes)
    
   …
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