How does cgi.FieldStorage store files?

So I've been playing around with raw WSGI, cgi.FieldStorage and file uploads. And I just can't understand how it deals with file uploads.

At first it seemed that it just stores the whole file in memory. And I thought hm, that should be easy to test - a big file should clog up the memory!.. And it didn't. Still, when I request the file, it's a string, not an iterator, file object or anything.

I've tried reading the cgi module's source and found some things about temporary files, but it returns a freaking string, not a file(-like) object! So... how does it fscking work?!

Here's the code I've used:

import cgi
from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server

def app(environ,start_response):
    start_response('200 OK',[('Content-Type','text/html')])
    output = """
    <form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <input type="file" name="failas" />
    <input type="submit" value="Varom" />
    </form>
    """
    fs = cgi.FieldStorage(fp=environ['wsgi.input'],environ=environ)
    f = fs.getfirst('failas')
    print type(f)
    return output


if __name__ == '__main__' :
    httpd = make_server('',8000,app)
    print 'Serving'
    httpd.serve_forever()

Thanks in advance! :)