Downloadable docx file in Django

Question

My django web app makes and save docx and I need to make it downloadable. I use simple render_to_response as below.

return render_to_response(\"         


        

Answer 1

I managed to generate a docx document from a django view thanks to python-docx.

Here is an example. I hope it helps

from django.http import HttpResponse
from docx import Document
from cStringIO import StringIO

def your_view(request):
    document = Document()
    document.add_heading(u"My title", 0)
    # add more things to your document with python-docx

    f = StringIO()
    document.save(f)
    length = f.tell()
    f.seek(0)
    response = HttpResponse(
        f.getvalue(),
        content_type='application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document'
    )
    response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=example.docx'
    response['Content-Length'] = length
    return response