Definitely use python csv and do it yourself. It's really very
simple. shaner's links above should help. One thing I would add is
make sure you convert all of your model values to unicode because
otherwise the csv module will choke on bad characters.
unicode(value, 'utf8')
:Marco
On Feb 17, 11:56 am, shaner <shane.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> i just added a csv export as an admin action from details here
>
> django
> csvhttp://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/howto/outputting-csv/#howto-outp...
>
> admin
> actionshttp://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/ref/contrib/admin/actions/#ref-c...
>
> On Feb 17, 7:49 am, Shawn Milochik <sh...@milochik.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Note: Your "novice Django skills" are irrelevant -- working with CSV files
> > in Django is nothing more than Python. Just check out the docs and examples
> > on the Python CSV module. You'll enjoy working with Python (and Django) a
> > lot more if you take the time to read a book or two, do tutorials, and
> > generally familiarize yourself with the language and framework. You'll also
> > be a lot better at it.
>
> > The only "Django" bit to the whole thing is the download part. I'll give
> > you a few lines of code that I use to give the user an Excel file as a
> > download when they run a report. You should be able to easily modify it to
> > serve a CSV file.
>
> > xls_response = HttpResponse(mimetype="application/ms-excel")
> > xls_response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment;
> > filename=Reimbursement_Report_%s_to_%s.xls' % (start_date, end_date)
>
> > #note: 'xls' here is an Excel spreadsheet created by xlwt
> > xls.save(xls_response)
> > return xls_response
>
> > Shawn
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