Anthony, TSV works pretty well. Now I have to figure out how to get rid of 
the html formatting I've put in, but I think it does the trick.

On Friday, November 1, 2013 2:14:30 AM UTC+8, Anthony wrote:
>
> If you can live with tab-delimited instead of comma delimited, the TSV 
> format does exactly what you want (it actually downloads with a .csv 
> extension, so it will open up in Excel as is). If you need CSV, perhaps you 
> could copy the gluon.sqlhtml.ExportTSV class and just change the delimiter 
> to a comma. Note, the HTML download also uses represent.
>
> Also, outside of the grid, if you want to use represent in CSV exports, 
> you can do rows.export_to_csv(..., represent=True).
>
> Anthony
>
> On Thursday, October 31, 2013 1:50:08 AM UTC-4, weheh wrote:
>>
>> My grid has a bunch of its data created with .represent. I want to export 
>> this in CSV format. The export class dumps raw underlying data without the 
>> represent values shown by the grid. Is there a way to get export to put out 
>> the represented format used by grid? Or do I have to write a custom 
>> exporter that loops through all the rows and does lambda substitutions 
>> again?
>>
>

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