django-sendfile  is a wrapper around web-server specific methods for sending files to web clients. See Alternatives and related projects for details about this project.
django-downloadview provides a port of django-sendfile's main function.
django-downloadview can replace the following django-sendfile 's backends: nginx, xsendfile, simple. But it currently cannot replace mod_wsgi backend.
In your project's and apps dependencies, replace django-sendfile by django-downloadview.
replace sendfile by django_downloadview in INSTALLED_APPS.
setup DOWNLOADVIEW_RULES. It replaces SENDFILE_ROOT and can do more.
Change your tests if any. You can no longer use django-senfile 's development backend. See Write tests for django-downloadview 's toolkit.
Port of django-sendfile's API in django-downloadview.
Instantiates a PathDownloadView to stream the file by filename.