Thanks for the reply Nick.

I expect to not be able to open the downloaded file in a text editor
and be able to read those numbers directly. It should contain
serialized data of my choosing.

On Sep 16, 7:38 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I am trying to allow users of my app to download binary files
> > which are created on the fly. These files will contain model data in
> > binary format.
>
> > I am doing the following now;
>
> >  def post(self):
> >    self.response.headers["Content-Type"] = "application/octet-stream"
> >    self.response.headers["Content-Disposition"] =
> > "attachment;filename=license.bin"
> >    self.response.out.write(89372379324)
>
> > However I have found out that out.write is actually writing strings..
> > how I can change this to write a binary file?
>
> Python raw strings _are_ binary. What is the desired output of your snippet
> above?
>
> -Nick
>
>
>
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> Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine
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> 368047
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