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.

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Answer 1

Yep, a cleaner options, as stated by wardk would be, using https://python-docx.readthedocs.org/:

from docx import Document
from django.http import HttpResponse

def download_docx(request):
    document = Document()
    document.add_heading('Document Title', 0)

    response = HttpResponse(content_type='application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document')
    response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=download.docx'
    document.save(response)

    return response

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Try with this response:

response = HttpResponse(mydata, mimetype='application/vnd.ms-word')
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=example.doc'
return response 

Answer 4

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