Django - Export ASCII CSV

Question

I want to export a CSV-file encoded in ASCII but the default is UTF-8 if I encode the strings i get the bytecode written in the csv (b'String')

 response = HttpResponse(content_type='text/csv')
 response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="datev_export.csv"'
 writer = csv.writer(response, delimiter=";",)
 row = ['some', 'strings']
 writer.writerow(first_row)
 return response

So how can I encode my string to ASCII without the leading b'' ?

Answer 1

You can use the encode method of strings like

"asdf".encode("ascii")

for bytes there is the decode method for getting things back like

b"asdf".decode("ascii")