Django - Export ASCII CSV

Question

I want to export a CSV-file encoded in ASCII but the default is UTF-8 if I encode the strings i get the bytecode written in the csv (b'String')

 response = HttpResponse(content_type='text/csv')
 response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="datev_export.csv"'
 writer = csv.writer(response, delimiter=";",)
 row = ['some', 'strings']
 writer.writerow(first_row)
 return response

So how can I encode my string to ASCII without the leading b'' ?

Your code does not produce the problem for me with Django 1.9 on Python 3. The CSV file does not contain the b"" prefix, and the default encoding is ascii. Post the code and related data that produces the problem. — mhawke
– mhawke, Commented Jul 27, 2016 at 12:30

janbrohl · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-27 12:18:06Z

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You can use the encode method of strings like

"asdf".encode("ascii")

for bytes there is the decode method for getting things back like

b"asdf".decode("ascii")

answered Jul 27, 2016 at 12:18

janbrohl

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