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

Use this solution for model csv file.might being helpful

 # Create the HttpResponse object with the appropriate CSV header.
 response = HttpResponse(content_type='text/csv')
 response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; 
 filename="somefilename.csv"'
 writer = csv.writer(response);
 writer.writerow(["username","Email"]);
 for i in User.objects.all():
     writer.writerow([i.username,i.email])
 return response

Answer 2

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)

Answer 3

You can also make a template to assist in formatting!

The template is a common Django template

from django.template import loader
def export_to_csv(request):
    response = HttpResponse(mimetype='text/csv')
    response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="products-list.csv"'
    template = loader.get_template('templates/products_template.csb')
    response.write(template.render(Context({'products': Products.objects.all()})))
    return response