Nooooooo. This would break other apps in the same server.
I would take a patch to pass the parameter around or use the grid exporter
in appadmin.
On Tuesday, 8 January 2013 12:52:38 UTC-6, Derek wrote:
>
> 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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