FilePickerFile

Metadata for a file selected via flet.FilePicker.pick_files.

Returned by flet.FilePicker.pick_files and used as input context for FilePickerUploadFile when uploading selected files.

Properties

• bytes - File contents.
• id - Selection-scoped file identifier assigned by Flet.
• name - File name (basename), without directory path.
• path - Absolute path to the selected file, when available.
• size - File size in bytes.

Properties

buildbytesclass-attributeinstance-attribute

bytes: Optional[bytes] = None

File contents.

Returned only when pick_files is called with with_data=True. Otherwise this value is None.

buildidinstance-attribute

id: int

Selection-scoped file identifier assigned by Flet.

This value is stable for the current picker selection and is preferred for upload matching in FilePickerUploadFile.

buildnameinstance-attribute

name: str

File name (basename), without directory path.

buildpathclass-attributeinstance-attribute

path: Optional[str] = None

Absolute path to the selected file, when available.

Note

• Web mode always returns None.
• On native platforms, this can still be None if the platform picker does not expose a filesystem path.

buildsizeinstance-attribute

size: int

File size in bytes.