The issue here is that in Python 3 you need to use StringIO with csv.write and send_file requires BytesIO, so you have to do both.
@app.route('/test_download')
def test_download():
row = ['hello', 'world']
proxy = io.StringIO()
writer = csv.writer(proxy)
writer.writerow(row)
# Creating the byteIO object from the StringIO Object
mem = io.BytesIO()
mem.write(proxy.getvalue().encode())
# seeking was necessary. Python 3.5.2, Flask 0.12.2
mem.seek(0)
proxy.close()
return send_file(
mem,
as_attachment=True,
download_name="test.csv",
mimetype="text/csv"
)
Prior to Flask 2.0, download_name was called attachment_filename.