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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

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 or some other source. 
    csv_data = ( 
        ('First row', 'Foo', 'Bar', 'Baz'), 
        ('Second row', 'A', 'B', 'C', '"Testing"',...