[Django]-How to download a document generated with python-docx in Django project?

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Python-docx’s Document.save() method accepts a stream instead of a filename. Thus, you can initialize an io.BytesIO() object to save the document into, then dump that to the user.

Reporte = ReporteWord(Gcas, FI, FF, grafica)
bio = io.BytesIO()
Reporte.save(bio)  # save to memory stream
bio.seek(0)  # rewind the stream
response = HttpResponse(
    bio.getvalue(),  # use the stream's contents
    content_type="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
)
response["Content-Disposition"] = 'attachment; filename = "Reporte.docx"'
response["Content-Encoding"] = "UTF-8"
return response

This will work if you use a regular link or a form to submit the request, but since you’re using $.ajax, you may need to do additional work on the browser end to have the client download the file. It would be easier not to use $.ajax.

👤AKX

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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

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