ok, with dave's prompting and help, i got the code to work.  i don't 
understand why taking the response.write() function out there works.  how 
come?

here is my working snippet:

            from cStringIO import StringIO
            stream = StringIO()
            if (file_return == 'xml'):
                from gluon.serializers import xml
                stream.write(xml(dct))
                response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/xml; 
charset=us-ascii'
                response.headers['Content-disposition'] = 'attachment; 
filename=hsDNA_%s_IQa.xml' % (qry[0][1])
                return stream.getvalue()
            else:
                stream.write(r"%s" % dct)
                response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain; 
charset=us-ascii'
                response.headers['Content-disposition'] = 'attachment; 
filename=hsDNA_%s_IQa.py' % (qry[0][1])
                return stream.getvalue()

i got rid of the csv option and just went with xml and python.  both are 
working great.

thanx dave, lucas

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