django excel xlwt

Question

On a django site, I want to generate an excel file based on some data in the database.

I\'m thinking of using xlwt, but it only has a method to save the data to a fi

Answer 1

If your data result doesn't need formulas or exact presentation styles, you can always use CSV. any spreadsheet program would directly read it. I've even seen some webapps that generate CSV but name it as .XSL just to be sure that Excel opens it