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Ray P.
Ray P.

Reputation: 925

Django: render a txt file with linebreaks

I need to return a txt file as HTTPResponse in Django. The file needs to contain multiple lines generated from a list (ex. ['line one', 'line two']). If I use DTL and a template, I cannot insert any line breaks except for html-specific ones. So, my current solution is to write lines to response with csv.writer. It works, but isn't there a more elegant way to get a txt file that looks like this?

line one
line two

Update: I guess, my problem is that I need CR,LF linebreaks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2946

Answers (2)

Risadinha
Risadinha

Reputation: 16671

If you have a list of strings and want to output it in a response as one string only, the easiest is to use join:

lines = ['line one', 'line two']
response_content = '\n'.join(lines)
return HttpResponse(response_content, content_type="text/plain")

Inside a template that would be:

 {% for line in mylines %}
     {{ line }}
 {% endfor %}

This should put each line on its own line in the output.

Upvotes: 3

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 600059

Your assertion is simply false. Django template language is in no way limited to HTML; it works just as well for any format and you can quite happily use it to generate a text file.

Upvotes: 0

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