another newbie question

[Mary Jane Boholst]

Hello everyone,
I have a question that google couldnt answer for me and thought that the
brains on here might be able to help.
I am trying to upload a file to a database using a (cgi) form and am
having trouble doing this. I think that I need some way of escaping the
file contents or making it so that mysql/python (not sure which) will
ignore the files actual contents and store it in the db regardless of
what is actually in the file.
I hope that made sense.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Regards,
MJ