You could monkey-patch the dal 'rows' object __str__ by making it export as
a TSV.
On Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:01:42 AM UTC-7, Marco Prosperi wrote:
>
> hello everybody,
> how can I change the following function (defined in appadmin.py
> controller) so that the downloaded file has tab separated values
> instead of comma separated? Or do I have to change some settings
> somewhere?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Marco
>
> def csv():
> import gluon.contenttype
> response.headers['Content-Type'] = \
> gluon.contenttype.contenttype('.csv')
> db = get_database(request)
> query = get_query(request)
> if not query:
> return None
> response.headers['Content-disposition'] = \
> 'attachment; filename=%s_%s.csv'\
> % tuple(request.vars.query.split('.')[:2])
> return str(db(query).select())
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