csv files for download

[Rob Williscroft]

Bobby Roberts wrote in news:cdc29298-d005-4804-b407-81ecaf6bb1b4@
2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com in comp.lang.python:

> I need to be able to offer a client "click to download" functionality
> on their website.  Generating the data to provide to them is not an
> issue but I want them to be able to click a button and have the
> response be sent to a csv file which they are prompted to download.
> Can someone point me in the right direction how to do this in python.
> Thanks in advance.

Assuming your using WSGI (you don't say) it would be something like this:

def wsgi( environ, start_response ):
  start_response( '200 OK', [ 
      ('Content-Type','text/csv'),
      ('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename=whatever.csv') 
    ])
  ...

If your using cgi it will be something like:

print "Content-Type: text/csv"
print 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=whatever.csv'
print   
...                            

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Content-Disposition
http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/cgi-intro.html

Rob.
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