from django_comments.models import Comment from regluit.experimental.gutenberg import unicode_csv import os def output_to_csv(f, headers, rows, write_header=True, convert_values_to_unicode=True): """ take rows, an iterable of dicts (and corresponding headers) and output as a CSV file to f """ from unicode_csv import UnicodeDictWriter cw = UnicodeDictWriter(f, headers) if write_header: cw.writerow(dict([(h,h) for h in headers])) for row in rows: if convert_values_to_unicode: row = dict([(k, unicode(v)) for (k,v) in row.items()]) cw.writerow(row) return f def getattr_deep(start, attr): """http://stackoverflow.com/a/7778877/7782 """ obj = start for part in attr.split('.'): obj = getattr(obj, part) return obj def comments(headers): """given a set of attributes, including deeper level values, return a dict of those attributes for the Comments""" return [ dict( (h, getattr_deep(c, h)) for h in headers) for c in Comment.objects.all() ] def comments_csv(fname='{0}/comments.csv'.format(os.path.split(__file__)[0])): """write out some basic metadata about the comments""" f = open(fname, "wb") headers = ('id', 'comment', 'submit_date', 'user_name', 'content_object', 'content_object.id', 'content_object.title') f = output_to_csv(f, headers, comments(headers)) f.close()