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

I combined some of the previous answers, because I needed to import some data from production and change some of it along the way. So here is my solution, which you can use to override some field values while writing the CSV file.

Export some queryset data into CSV file:

import csv

from myapp.models import MyModel
from user.models import User

# Make some queryset manually using Django shell:
user = User.objects.get(username='peterhil')
queryset = MyModel.objects.filter(user=user)

def query_to_csv(queryset, filename='items.csv', **override):
    field_names = [field.name for field in queryset.model._meta.fields]
    def field_value(row, field_name):
        if field_name in override.keys():
            return override[field_name]
        else:
            return row[field_name]
    with open(filename, 'w') as csvfile:
        writer = csv.writer(csvfile, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL, delimiter=',')
        writer.writerow(field_names)  # write the header
        for row in queryset.values(*field_names):
            writer.writerow([field_value(row, field) for field in field_names])

# Example usage:
query_to_csv(queryset, filename='data.csv', user=1, group=1)