xlwt write excel sheet on the fly

Question

I am used to creating a spreadsheet in the following way:

    wbk = xlwt.Workbook()
    earnings_tab = wbk.add_sheet(\'EARNINGS\')
    wbk.save(filepath)
         


        

Answer 1

this is what i use in Django:

response = HttpResponse(content_type='application/vnd.ms-excel')
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=file.xls'
book.save(response)
return response