On Monday, November 12, 2012, Daniel Roseman wrote: > On Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:51:44 UTC, HA wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> I want to export data from my named tuple within my django html template. >> Can someone please point me to an example or let me know how to >> accomplish this? >> I know how to get this done within my python script but this time I want >> to get this done inside of my html template page. Basically I want to have >> a button which says "Export to CSV" on html page and clicking on it exports >> data (from a named tuple) to a csv >> > While I might agree with DR below, it should be pointed out, and is more friendly to note, that the front page of the documentation has a link that is called "Generating CSV", points to /path/django-docs/howto/outputting-csv.html<file:///home/datakid/src/django-docs/howto/outputting-csv.html> and shows two techniques for outputting html, one using a view function (as per below) and one using the template, as requested. Note that the template solution is provided "for completeness" which I take to mean "the developers cannot think of any use case, but admit that it is possible and therefore give an example".
Also, a quick search will turn up a number of Django snippets that show how to output a queryset; and I believe there's an "export anything to anything" app as well. cheers L. > This question makes no sense. Exporting data isn't something you do in a > template, you do it in a view. Your template should just have a link to the > view that does this. > And what could it mean to have data in a "named tuple"? Assuming you mean > collections.namedtuple, that's just a tuple with named fields, and is > really only suitable for a small amount of data. How can you have enough > data in a namedtuple to make it worth exporting to a CSV? > -- ...we look at the present day through a rear-view mirror. This is something Marshall McLuhan said back in the Sixties, when the world was in the grip of authentic-seeming future narratives. He said, “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14314 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
