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

Depending on the scenario - you may want to have a CSV of your model. If you have access to the Django Admin site, you can plug in a generic action for any model displayed as a list (google: django admin actions)

http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/790/

If you're operating with a console (python manage.py ...), you can use such a script, which I just used:

(place it in: yourapp/management/commands/model2csv.py)

"""
 Prints CSV of all fields of a model.
"""

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError
import csv
import sys

class Command(BaseCommand):
    help = ("Output the specified model as CSV")
    args = '[appname.ModelName]'

    def handle(self, *app_labels, **options):
        from django.db.models import get_model
        app_name, model_name = app_labels[0].split('.')
        model = get_model(app_name, model_name)
        field_names = [f.name for f in model._meta.fields]
        writer = csv.writer(sys.stdout, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)
        writer.writerow(field_names)
        for instance in model.objects.all():
            writer.writerow([unicode(getattr(instance, f)).encode('utf-8') for f in field_names])

This does not catch any exceptions etc., but as an Admin you won't cause them to be raised, right?

Use it like:

./manage.py model2csv my_ecommerce.Product > products.csv