Exporting items from a model to CSV Django / Python

Question

I\'m fairly new to django and Python and want to be able to export a list of items in my model i.e products. I\'m looking at the documentation here - https://docs.djangoproject.

Answer 1

Have a look at the python csv module.

You'll probably want to get the models fields with

def get_model_fields(model):
    return model._meta.fields

Then use

getattr(instance, field.name)

to get the field values (as in this question).

Then you'll want something like

with open('your.csv', 'wb') as csvfile:
    writer = csv.writer(csvfile)
    # write your header first
    for obj in YourModel.objects.all():
        row = ""
        for field in fields:
             row += getattr(obj, field.name) + ","
        writer.writerow(row)

It's a bit verbose (and untested), but it should give you an idea. (Oh and don't forget to close your file)