Django/Python: Save an HTML table to Excel

I have an HTML table that I'd like to be able to export to an Excel file. I already have an option to export the table into an IQY file, but I'd prefer something that didn't allow the user to refresh the data via Excel. I just want a feature that takes a snapshot of the table at the time the user clicks the link/button.

I'd prefer it if the feature was a link/button on the HTML page that allows the user to save the query results displayed in the table. It would also be nice if the formatting from the HTML/CSS could be retained. Is there a w开发者_如何学运维ay to do this at all? Or, something I can modify with the IQY?

I can try to provide more details if needed. Thanks in advance.

You can use the excellent xlwt module. It is very easy to use, and creates files in xls format (Excel 2003).

Here is an (untested!) example of use for a Django view:

from django.http import HttpResponse
import xlwt

def excel_view(request):
  normal_style = xlwt.easyxf("""
     font:
         name Verdana
     """) 
  response = HttpResponse(mimetype='application/ms-excel')
  wb = xlwt.Workbook()
  ws0 = wb.add_sheet('Worksheet')
  ws0.write(0, 0, "something", normal_style)
  wb.save(response)
  return response

Use CSV. There's a module in Python ("csv") to generate it, and excel can read it natively.

Excel support opening an HTML file containing a table as a spreadsheet (even with CSS formatting).

You basically have to serve that HTML content from a django view, with the content-type application/ms-excel as Roberto said.

Or if you feel adventurous, you could use something like Downloadify to prepare the file to be downloaded on the client side.