Mastering Django: Core

Using the template system

Alternatively, you can use the Django template system to generate CSV. This is lower-level than using the convenient Python csv module, but the solution is presented here for completeness. The idea here is to pass a list of items to your template, and have the template output the commas in a for loop. Here's an example, which generates the same CSV file as above:

from django.http import HttpResponse from django.template import loader, Context def some_view(request): # Create the HttpResponse object with the appropriate CSV header. response = HttpResponse(content_type='text/csv') response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="somefilename.csv"' # The data is hard-coded here, but you could load it # from a database ...