On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 2:07:39 PM UTC-8, Dave S wrote: > > > > On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 1:35:01 PM UTC-8, lucas wrote: >> >> how about simpler? >> >> from StringIO import StringIO >> stream = StringIO("test for echo") >> stream.write("oh crap") >> stream.seek(0) >> response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain; >> charset=us-ascii' >> response.headers['Content-disposition'] = 'attachment; >> filename=hsDNA_%s_IQa.py' % (qry[0][1]) >> return response.write(stream.getvalue()) >> >> but it only puts the string "None" in the downloaded file. i've tried it >> with cStringIO instead of StringIO, with and without the write method. i >> just can't get those strings to come across. >> >> but if i replace the last line with "return >> HTML(BODY(stream.getvalue()))" it will work. so for some reason the stream >> is filling with the strings but the stream is not filling the file. >> > > leave off the response.write() around the stream.getvalue(). > >
By the way, for me the stream.write() text overwrites the [0:] portion of the StringIO("test for echo"). /dps -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.