The only solution is to rewrite the method it uses for zipping files to read from a buffer. It would be trivial to add this to the standard libraries; I'm kind of amazed it hasn't been done yet. I gather there's a lot of agreement the entire interface needs to be overhauled, and that seems to be blo
This snippet demonstrates how you can send a file (or file-like object) through Django without having to load the whole thing into memory. The FileWrapper will turn the file-like object into an iterator for chunks of 8KB.
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Create a zip file from a generator in Python?
djangosnippets: Send large files through Django, and how to generate Zip files
