Issues

importzipfile
fromcStringIOimport StringIO
fromdjango.utils.httpwrappersimport HttpResponse
defview_that_returns_zipped_file(request):
 response = HttpResponse(mimetype='application/zip')
 response['Content-Disposition'] = 'filename=all_things.zip'
 #first assemble your files
 files = []
 for thing in Thing.objects.all():
 files.append(("%s.pdf" % (thing.id,), thing.biggish_file()))
 #now add them to a zip file
 #note the zip only exist in memory as you add to it
 buffer = StringIO()
 zip = zipfile.ZipFile(buffer, "w", zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
 for name, f in files:
 zip.writestr(name, f)
 zip.close()
 buffer.flush()
 #the import detail--we return the content of the buffer
 ret_zip = buffer.getvalue()
 buffer.close()
 response.write(ret_zip)
 return response