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Asked: 2026-05-23T04:33:04+00:00

I’m developing web application on python. But the client wants a tool that exports

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I’m developing web application on python.
But the client wants a tool that exports current page to excel.
So I had to write an extra code in every pages (views) that converts the table to excel using xlwt (python module).

But I have a better solution. It sends a current page’s content html to the server and the server would respond this html table as excel type.
Like this:

response['Content-Type'] = 'application/vnd.ms-excel; charset=utf-8'
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel"

This works quite good. But I’m curious about whether every browser supports this excel respond!?!?!

If not it would be a big problem to me 🙁

Or do browsers support it if only MS Excel or OpenOffice is installed on the client computer?

Any other “global” solution or ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Properly converting it into an actual Excel file would definitely be the best way to go.

    That said, if

    • You give the file name the .XLS extension
    • Send along the proper MIME type
    • Excel or some other program registered to handle XLS files is installed on the user’s computer

    the “fake HTML as Excel” method should work fine. I have never tried opening a HTML file masked as XML in OpenOffice, though – you should definitely try that out and see what it does with it.

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