I am a new to django and python. Need some guidance in this quest.

Case: When the user hits the submit button on a form, it should display Success page and a link where they can download the results. The results are in excel file. I can create output to excel file using xlwt module and display the success page individually but not both at the same time. 

What i have:
I am running django1.1.1 on windows XP with python 2.6. There was similar question asked 
 but was not able to make it work.

my success page.html has this line

```
<a href="../static/example.xls">Download CSV File</a>

```

urls.py:

```
url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', send_file), 

```

views.py:

```
def send_file(request):

import os, tempfile, zipfile
from django.core.servers.basehttp import FileWrapper

"""                                                                         
Send a file through Django without loading the whole file into              
memory at once. The FileWrapper will turn the file object into an           
iterator for chunks of 8KB.                                                 
"""
filename = "C:/example.xls" # Select your file here.                                
wrapper = FileWrapper(file(filename),"rb")
response = HttpResponse(wrapper, content_type='text/plain')
#response['Content-Length'] = os.path.getsize(filename)
return response

```

When i click on the link, it gives path error

```
send_file() got an unexpected keyword argument 'path'
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    localhost:8000/webinput/static/example.xls
Exception Type: TypeError
Exception Value:    
send_file() got an unexpected keyword argument 'path'

```

BTW example.xls is at both the locations C:/example.xls and in static folder

Structure:

* webdb
	+ Static
		- example.xls
	+ Webinput
		- urls.py
		- views.py
		- models.py

I have these 2 modules as well. If i use backup\_to\_csv it works fine but it downlods directly without the link. How to do the same when i already have a file. If there are other ways where i dont have to store file, that is fine too.

def xls\_to\_response(xls, fname):

```
response = HttpResponse(mimetype="application/ms-excel")
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=%s' % fname
xls.save(response)
return response

```

def backup\_to\_csv(request,row):

```
response = HttpResponse(mimetype='text/csv')
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="backup.csv"'
writer = csv.writer(response, dialect='excel')    
#code for writing csv file go here...
for i in row:
    writer.writerow(i)
return response

```