Generating CSV, PDF, and Other Binary Files

So far, we have learned about the various aspects of the Django framework and explored how we can build web applications using Django with all the features and customizations we want.

Let’s say that, while building a web application, we need to do some analysis and prepare some reports. We may need to analyze user demographics about how the platform is being used or generate data that can be fed into machine learning systems to find patterns. We want our website to display some of the results of our analysis in a tabular format and other results as detailed graphs and charts. Furthermore, we want to allow our users to export the reports and peruse them further in applications such as Jupyter Notebook and Excel.

As we work our way through this chapter, we will learn how to bring these ideas to fruition and implement functionality in our web application that allows us to export records into structured formats such as tables through...