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

Is it possible, that your path to 'test.docx' contains non-ascii-characters? Did you check all local variables on the django debug page?

What I did to download an xml file was not to create the file on disc but to use a memory file (saves me from dealing with file systems, path, ...):

    memory_file = StringIO.StringIO()
    memory_file.writelines(out) #out is an XMLSerializer object in m case

    response = HttpResponse(memory_file.getvalue(), content_type='application/xml')
    response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="my_file.xml"'
    response['Content-Length'] = memory_file.tell()
    return response

Maybe you can adapt this to your docx-situation.