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errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:28 PM

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so dict_to_be_passed was an example variable name

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:28 PM

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so

quick cargo Sep 11, 2020, 7:28 PM

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you use . notation for keys btw

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dict.key not dict['key']

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also send your code

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:29 PM

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https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/2.11.x/templates/

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:29 PM

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would it be

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:29 PM

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according to the docs both do that same thing

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:30 PM

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dict.key['example of a key']

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:30 PM

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dict.key = dict['key']

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So the error you are getting is that dict_to_be_passed is not assigned

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so can you show the render_template function you use to call this?

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:31 PM

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one sec the file is quie large

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!paste

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https://paste.pythondiscord.com/bivoqeyoro.py

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:33 PM

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which route is giving the error

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:33 PM

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    @app.route("/UpdateKnowledgeArticles")
    @login_required
    def knowledge_articles():
        return render_template("knowledge_articles.xhtml", dict=urls_311)```

quick cargo Sep 11, 2020, 7:33 PM

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you dont specify the dict

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it expects dict_to_be_passed=something

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:34 PM

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So in your template the value you would reference is dict not dict_to_be_passed

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because in the render_template function you are passing the variable dict so that is the one you would be able to reference in the template

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:35 PM

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oh i thought dict was a specific kward

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but ok thx

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:35 PM

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It is and you shouldn't use it

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return render_template("knowledge_articles.xhtml", my_dict=urls_311)

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" dir="ltr">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Knowledge Articles</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    {% extends "staff_parent_template.xhtml" %}
    {% block content %}
    <h1> Welcome to the Knowledge Articles page </h1>
    <p> these are the new articles for today </p>
    <h3>DICTIONARY: {{ my_dict }} </h3>
    <h3>DICTIONARY FIELD: {{ my_dict['field_name'] }}</h3>

    {% endblock %}
  </body>
</html>

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Make sense?

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:37 PM

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alright so

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so it's a list not a dict

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:37 PM

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That means that you are passing a list instead of a dictionary

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:37 PM

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yeah

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:38 PM

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so it would be something in your processing of urls_311

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:38 PM

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yeah indeed urls is a list

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urls_311 = []

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but the functino

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def parseXML(xml_string):
    # parse xml
    prefix = "{http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}"
    dt = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
    root = ET.fromstring(xml_string)
    for url in root.iter(f"{prefix}url"):
        for loc, time in zip(url.iter(f"{prefix}loc"), url.iter(f"{prefix}lastmod")):
            obj_time = dateparser.parse(time.text)
            if obj_time >= (dt - timedelta(days=3)):
                # print(loc.text, "---", time.text)
                urls_311.append({"url": loc.text, "last update": obj_time})
    #print(urls_311)
    return urls_311```

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so it's a list of dicts O.o

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urls_311.append({"url": loc.text, "last update": obj_time})
    #print(urls_311)
    return urls_311```

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or tuple or something?

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:43 PM

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So append is a list function

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So yes you are creating a list of dictionaries

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 7:44 PM

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what is .xhtml format?

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:44 PM

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idk, it's like the default recommendation in my ide

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what should I google

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:46 PM

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Give me one second

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:46 PM

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k

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:46 PM

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I need to create an example

dense bear Sep 11, 2020, 7:48 PM

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hey everyone! anybody available to help with a flask-sqlalchemy problem?

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:49 PM

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So @swift sky I don't know if you're using the dict correctly

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:55 PM

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oh

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:55 PM

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Dictionaries are data structures that store a key value pair

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:55 PM

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yes

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:55 PM

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keys should be unique

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:55 PM

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oh

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:56 PM

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Luckily you already have a unique key

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:56 PM

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why woulnt they be unique

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:56 PM

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urls_311[loc.text] = {
  "last update": obj_time
}

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:56 PM

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yeah each url is unique

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:57 PM

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That statement makes it so that each url is created into a dictionary entry

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the value for the entry is another dictionary that holds attributes about the url

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:58 PM

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well

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:59 PM

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'url0': {'last_update': 'some_time'}

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 7:59 PM

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yeah i understand

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 7:59 PM

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so you would get entries that look like that

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:00 PM

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i guess that works

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i mean

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but why are you breaking it up like that

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:01 PM

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what do you mean?

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:01 PM

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the value for the entry is another dictionary that holds attributes about the url
@errant spear this

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like wouldn't you want to just do url & time

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:02 PM

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You could absolutely do that

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that would 100% work the key is the url and the value is obj_time

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I just thought you wanted it split up because that is the way you had it before

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:04 PM

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hmm

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:05 PM

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If I were you I would do it as urls_311[url] = obj_time

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:05 PM

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If I were you I would do it as urls_311[url] = obj_time
@errant spear where are you doing this

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:06 PM

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def parseXML(xml_string):
    # parse xml
    prefix = "{http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}"
    dt = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
    root = ET.fromstring(xml_string)
    for url in root.iter(f"{prefix}url"):
        for loc, time in zip(url.iter(f"{prefix}loc"), url.iter(f"{prefix}lastmod")):
            obj_time = dateparser.parse(time.text)
            if obj_time >= (dt - timedelta(days=3)):
                # print(loc.text, "---", time.text)
                # THIS IS THE LINE BEING CHANGED
                urls_311[loc.text] = obj_time
    #print(urls_311)
    return urls_311

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Like that

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:08 PM

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what should I do with urls_311 = [] at the top of the page

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:09 PM

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urls_311 = {} creates an empty dict

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:09 PM

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oh

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ha

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but now it will be a dictionary of dictionaries no?

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:09 PM

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No

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It will be a dictionary with many key-value pairs with the keys being urls and the values being last updated times

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:10 PM

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hmm

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so i tried it

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jinja2.exceptions.UndefinedError: 'dict object' has no attribute 'key'

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hmm one sec

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this is prob why

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<h3>DICTIONARY FIELD: {{ dict_to_be_passed.key['url'] }}</h3>

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:12 PM

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yes

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:12 PM

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would it now be loc

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it would not be loc

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:13 PM

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Not quite

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it would be the url

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and the way to access it in jinja2 is

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{% for url in my_dict %}
{{ url }} 
{{ my_dict[url] }} 
{% endfor %}

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make sense?

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:15 PM

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I have a lot of questions

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:15 PM

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Ok shoot

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:16 PM

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uhhhh

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when you use my_dict

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i guess that would be equivalent to dict_to_be_passed

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    <h3>DICTIONARY FIELD: {{ dict_to_be_passed.key['loc'] }}</h3>```

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:16 PM

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yes

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:16 PM

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also, do i need both h3 headers

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:17 PM

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or whatever is on the left side of the equals in render_template

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No you can do it in one

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Unless you want a line separation between them

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:17 PM

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naw

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i changed it to this

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        DICTIONARY FIELD: {{ dict_to_be_passed.key['loc'] }}</h3>```

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and so now I will try to make it like so

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wait

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so i don't need this anymore?DICTIONARY FIELD: {{ dict_to_be_passed.key['loc'] }}</h3>

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cuz im looping through the dict

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:19 PM

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{{ dict_to_be_passed.key['loc'] }} would throw an error

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first because the syntax is wrong

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the syntax is either

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{{ dict_to_be_passed.loc }} or
{{ dict_to_be_passed['loc'] }}

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secondly it would throw an error because that would search the dictionary for a place where key = 'loc'

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the keys are the urls

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so and the values are the locs

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so to get the loc for each url you would need {{ dict_to_be_passed[url] }}

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because that would access the value at that key

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does that make sense?

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:22 PM

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yes

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this is what i have now

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but it looks like I could get rid of the last line

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    <h3>DICTIONARY: {{ dict_to_be_passed }}

        {% for url in dict_to_be_passed %}
        {{ url }}
        {{ dict_to_be_passed[url] }}
        {% endfor %}

      DICTIONARY FIELD: {{ dict_to_be_passed['loc'] }}</h3>```

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:23 PM

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DICTIONARY FIELD: {{ dict_to_be_passed['loc'] }}</h3> this line will still throw an error

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:24 PM

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my bad

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i just didnt update it

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i dont need that line though

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since you are looping throught he dict already?

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:24 PM

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right

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:25 PM

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so im going to delete it then

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:25 PM

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{{ dict_to_be_passed }} will print the whole dict

{% for url in dict_to_be_passed %}
{{ url }}
{{ dict_to_be_passed[url] }}
{% endfor %}
``` will loop and print the url and location for all the entries

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:26 PM

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what's the difference

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:26 PM

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No formatting with {{dict_to_be_passed}}

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I think

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Not 100% sure

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:27 PM

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lets see

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well

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closer

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i can at least visit the url

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however

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:29 PM

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however....

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:31 PM

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errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:34 PM

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hmmm and what does your render_template statement look like?

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:34 PM

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    @login_required
    def knowledge_articles():
        return render_template("knowledge_articles.xhtml", dict_to_be_passed=urls_311)```

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it may be how my parser script is running

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:35 PM

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That's my guess

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 8:36 PM

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meaning, the ordedr of things being run, and the imports

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since its returning an empty dict

errant spear Sep 11, 2020, 8:39 PM

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correct

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that is the way it seems

swift sky Sep 11, 2020, 9:02 PM

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thank you for your help

past cipher Sep 11, 2020, 9:29 PM

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Instead of wrapping try:except around all my code, is there another way to log errors that may occur? I have over 12 files, and at least 3000 lines of code

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Flask btw

hallow jacinth Sep 11, 2020, 10:08 PM

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anyone have an idea why elasticsearch isn't finding the indecies on heroku?

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It works locally, and that is what is confusing me haha

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:13 PM

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how do i conntect css to html , im using flask

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and i have
base.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="mystyle.css">
        <title>{% block title%}{% endblock %}</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        {% block content %}
        {% endblock %}
    </body>
</html>

body {
    background-color: cadetblue;
    text-align: center;
}

both in same fodler

hallow jacinth Sep 11, 2020, 10:13 PM

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you have to create a static directory in the same level as your templates directory

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then after you put your css in the static directory

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then depending on how you set up your html files, you use the code
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ url_for('static', filename='mystyle.css') }}">

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you can also use the static directory for imgs and stuff that you use to style your site with

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:16 PM

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i have base.html and just extend it in other tempaltes , do i just put it in base.html?

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hallow jacinth Sep 11, 2020, 10:16 PM

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yes you can just put it in your base

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:16 PM

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ url_for('static', filename='mystyle.css') }}">
        <title>{% block title%}{% endblock %}</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        {% block content %}
        {% endblock %}
    </body>
</html>

hallow jacinth Sep 11, 2020, 10:16 PM

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it will apply to all files using the base

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you haven't created a static directory

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:17 PM

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what does it mean?

hallow jacinth Sep 11, 2020, 10:17 PM

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it should be like this

\app
    \static
        .css
    \templates
        .html

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:18 PM

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?

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or without css folder

quick cargo Sep 11, 2020, 10:18 PM

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doesnt matter really

hallow jacinth Sep 11, 2020, 10:18 PM

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^

quick cargo Sep 11, 2020, 10:18 PM

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just add it to your path to le file

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:19 PM

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still 404

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hallow jacinth Sep 11, 2020, 10:20 PM

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that is because the file path you are giving is not where your .css is

quick cargo Sep 11, 2020, 10:20 PM

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cuz you didnt do the css/ bit

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:20 PM

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css/mystyle.css?

quick cargo Sep 11, 2020, 10:20 PM

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yus

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:20 PM

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yay

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it works

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thank u guys

hallow jacinth Sep 11, 2020, 10:21 PM

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anyone have elasticsearch in a heroku flask app working?

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I keep getting a peculiar error

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:23 PM

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is it normal that flask doesnt debug when css updates?

hallow jacinth Sep 11, 2020, 10:23 PM

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you have to ctrl+r the page

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or cmd+r for mac

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:24 PM

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body {
    background-color: rgb(57, 36, 173);
    text-align: center;
    font-size: medium;
}
form {
    background-color: chartreuse;
    font-size: large;
}

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o.0

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after refreshing

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and suddently i dont get the get css notification in termianl

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only get i get

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versed lotus Sep 11, 2020, 10:28 PM

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what browser is that?

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:28 PM

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opera gx

versed lotus Sep 11, 2020, 10:28 PM

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do the dev tools open, if you hit F12?

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:29 PM

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nothing happens with f12 , lemme run the page on chrome

versed lotus Sep 11, 2020, 10:29 PM

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might also work with ctrl+shift+i

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:29 PM

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wait wut, suddently on chrome css works

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versed lotus Sep 11, 2020, 10:30 PM

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right, go to "Network" and see if the checkbox for "Disable Cache" is enabled.

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:30 PM

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its disabled

versed lotus Sep 11, 2020, 10:30 PM

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enable it, and keep it enabled.

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whenever you have the dev-tools open, the browser now won't cache your css files etc.

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and forces them to re-download

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:31 PM

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so i need to refresh with dev tools open?

versed lotus Sep 11, 2020, 10:31 PM

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preferably

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:32 PM

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yup , only works with dev tools open

versed lotus Sep 11, 2020, 10:32 PM

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I recommend getting used to dev-tools anyway. They're very helpful for debugging and adjusting CSS

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usually browsers have a way to "reload without cache". In most browsers it's something like Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:32 PM

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its my first day working on web dev soo advices are very welcome

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ctrl+f5 in opera will reload without cahge

versed lotus Sep 11, 2020, 10:33 PM

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yes, if you go to "Element" tab in dev tool, you can go through your html hierarchy, inspect each element, and see the CSS rules that apply and change them in the browser directly.

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:33 PM

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thats cool , but later they wont save even tho its my local host right?

versed lotus Sep 11, 2020, 10:34 PM

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no, those changes are only temporarily, until you reload the page

strong oriole Sep 11, 2020, 10:34 PM

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alright , thank u :3

static forum Sep 11, 2020, 10:36 PM

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Should this 2018 web development tutorial I found be fine to learn the basics or has there been any major updates within that time I should keep in mind so I don't learn outdated things

hallow jacinth Sep 11, 2020, 10:44 PM

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it should be fine, just becareful of outdated packages or version differences

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YOOOOOOOOO

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I finally fixed the stupid issue I have been having for the past week

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lets go

bright spindle Sep 11, 2020, 11:35 PM

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in django, whats the difference between DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE and STATICFILES_STORAGE?

deft flower Sep 11, 2020, 11:38 PM

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@bright spindle https://tartarus.org/james/diary/2013/07/18/fun-with-django-storage-backends

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE is used when you want to store file-like things attached to your models, using field types like FileField and ImageField; STATICFILES_STORAGE is where the static files pulled together from apps and your project by the collectstatic command end up.

bright spindle Sep 11, 2020, 11:40 PM

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is there instances where you would actually need different ones

native root Sep 11, 2020, 11:40 PM

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STATICFILES is for developer-provided files such as Html, Css, and Js

bright spindle Sep 11, 2020, 11:40 PM

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also for some reason STATIC_URL has become completely useless, while AWS_S3_CUSTOM_DOMAIN seems to take over the work

native root Sep 11, 2020, 11:41 PM

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They usually come from your apps

bright spindle Sep 11, 2020, 11:41 PM

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but i dont know if its useless or if its nessesary somewhere

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i put my static files on the cdn

native root Sep 11, 2020, 11:41 PM

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DEFAULT_FILES_STORAGE is where.. I think.. django stores uploaded files. User uploaded files, from Filefield and similar

bright spindle Sep 11, 2020, 11:41 PM

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to put less strain on the servers (or will it cause more strain, if it has to call the data, then inject the info and then return the data?)

native root Sep 11, 2020, 11:42 PM

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Then you should point your static url at the cdn

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static url is usually used in templates like {{ STATIC_URL }}img/logo.png

bright spindle Sep 11, 2020, 11:43 PM

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yeah but whatever i put on static url

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it still works

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oh wait nvm

native root Sep 11, 2020, 11:43 PM

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There's also STATICFILES_STORAGE

bright spindle Sep 11, 2020, 11:43 PM

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i just do

native root Sep 11, 2020, 11:44 PM

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Hm. Looks like I've been using static_url wrong

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Oh well

bright spindle Sep 11, 2020, 11:44 PM

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{% static 'foo/style.css' %}

native root Sep 11, 2020, 11:44 PM

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right, that's correct

bright spindle Sep 11, 2020, 11:44 PM

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but it seems STATIC_URL really doesnt do anything

native root Sep 11, 2020, 11:44 PM

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What that does is finds the appropriate link to the static file via STATICFILES_STORAGE

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https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/howto/static-files/deployment/#staticfiles-from-cdn

Deploying static files | Django documentation | Django

bright spindle Sep 11, 2020, 11:47 PM

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thanks for the help bast and sambyte! I also do wonder if im just making things slower by using a CDN for serving STATIC_FILES

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i just noticed... the source said its a smart idea to do so, but what makes it faster to load, django still has to receive the data, inject the data and then return the site

native root Sep 11, 2020, 11:58 PM

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While it won't reduce connection latency directly, it will reduce sending load on your server

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they still need to get the html from django, but it does mean that everything else comes from elsewhere, which is usually an improvement

bright spindle Sep 12, 2020, 12:01 AM

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the improvement is that it allows static files e.g. css and png to be served trough a cdn

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that is a huge bonus

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that makes me wonder... if the html actually gets served from cdn or from file storage, ill try that tomorrow nachoburg

meager coyote Sep 12, 2020, 12:14 AM

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hi im noob im trying to create a template in django but I think I have an error with routing? Thankful for your insights

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File "C:\Python38\lib\importlib_init_.py", line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1014, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 783, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in call_with_frames_removed
File "C:\dev\Projects\CookingBlog\CookingBlog\CookingBlog\urls.py", line 18, in <module>
from . import views
ImportError: cannot import name 'views' from 'CookingBlog' (C:\dev\Projects\CookingBlog\CookingBlog\CookingBlog_init.py)

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I'm following this https://djangocentral.com/configuring-django-templates/ but was stuck on this for the past hour

Django Central

Abhijeet

Configuring Django Templates | Django Central

Django is among the most recommended full stack web development frameworks at the moment. Django follows Model-Template-View (MTV) architecture. This is something similar to the traditional MVC( Model-View_Controller) architecture, but in Django, views are more like controller...

noble star Sep 12, 2020, 12:54 AM

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Ew Django

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I’d rather use Oganj

meager coyote Sep 12, 2020, 12:57 AM

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wats oganaj

fallen peak Sep 12, 2020, 12:59 AM

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hi im noob im trying to create a template in django but I think I have an error with routing? Thankful for your insights
@meager coyote You are trying to import "views" from the current directory (CookingBlog), but theres no "views" file in that directory

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Here's the scope which you're trying to import views from

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meager coyote Sep 12, 2020, 1:01 AM

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ah yeah you are right

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how would i go about importing it from the blog directory?

noble star Sep 12, 2020, 1:12 AM

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@meager coyote read Oganj backwards

fallen peak Sep 12, 2020, 1:19 AM

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how would i go about importing it from the blog directory?
@meager coyote from blog import views

fallen peak Sep 12, 2020, 1:47 AM

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@meager coyote read Oganj backwards
@noble star jnago?

noble star Sep 12, 2020, 1:54 AM

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It was supposed to be django, but my spelling is lacking

meager coyote Sep 12, 2020, 1:57 AM

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hi i solved it

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thanks Deivid

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and i prefer oganaj now

native tide Sep 12, 2020, 2:01 AM

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Is there a way with Flask to make it so a page is only accessible to people inside the network? I have Flask operating as a webhook listener but I would also like to have a page with buttons I can use to trigger the same events that the webhooks do

warm igloo Sep 12, 2020, 2:11 AM

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Safest bet would be to not have those buttons on the same app that’s facing the web even if you think you lock it down.

Make that button app to trigger your hooks be local only. Don’t risk it.

native tide Sep 12, 2020, 2:13 AM

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It just occurred to me that since I'm not checking the authenticity of the webhook messages that's totally possible. Thanks!

merry geode Sep 12, 2020, 2:39 AM

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@versed python regarding this tutorial you had given me earlier: https://dev.to/ignisda/setting-up-user-authentication-with-nuxtjs-and-django-rest-framework-part-1-5gji
As I said, most tutorials stop at how to signup the user and don't tell how to actually use that information in other APIs. Your tutorial also misses on this part.
What I wanted to know was how to use this token to validate requests once the signup and login is complete. And this is what I needed to do for that:

# For function based views, add the following decorators
@api_view(['GET'])
@permission_classes([IsAuthenticated])
def func_view(request):
    #then use the following to get the user id of the user who made the request
    user_id = request.user.id

And

# For class based view, use the APIView class
class ClassView(APIView):
    #then add the following permission class
    permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated,)

    def get(self, request):
        #then use the previous syntax to access the user information
        user_id = request.user.id

Unless I know this part, creating a login or signup doesn't serve much purpose as I still wouldn't know how to authenticate the requests.

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 2:54 AM

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@merry geode alright that's a fair point, and I missed it. It will add it to the tutorial as soon as I can. Thanks for the input!

deft flower Sep 12, 2020, 4:51 AM

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Hello all 🖐️ - I would like constructive feedback on the UX + code layout in my Django app - https://github.com/huangsam/chowist/ - feel free to provide it in the DMs or as a GitHub issue / feature request

GitHub

huangsam/chowist

Great places are chosen by great chowists. Contribute to huangsam/chowist development by creating an account on GitHub.

lethal orbit Sep 12, 2020, 7:42 AM

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Hello all 🖐️ - I would like constructive feedback on the UX + code layout in my Django app
@deft flower looks nice, but a little bit dry. Would be good to add some images. Maybe Cards (as I see you are using bootstrap) to display the restaurants list (https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.5/components/card/).

naive venture Sep 12, 2020, 9:08 AM

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Looking for a method/technology: I have an app that trains ML models and generates forms for users. All models are saved in a S3 bucket. After a user fills out a form and wants to predict something the app downloads the models from the bucket and uses it for the prediction. As the user can simply reuse the form I think that redownloading the model is unefficient. Is there a better way? Download the model to a temporary folder? Use cache?

dapper tusk Sep 12, 2020, 10:36 AM

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in django templates, how do you handle things like page title, which has to be in the title tag and 2 meta tags, allowing child templates to change the title in one place and having it use the title in 3 places

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sending the title as a context var seems quite silly

lethal orbit Sep 12, 2020, 11:43 AM

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in django templates, how do you handle things like page title, which has to be in the title tag and 2 meta tags, allowing child templates to change the title in one place and having it use the title in 3 places
@dapper tusk {%with foo="bar" %}<title>{{ foo }}</title>{% endwith %} or something to that effect?
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/templates/builtins/#with

dapper tusk Sep 12, 2020, 11:44 AM

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how would I override a with in a child tag

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can I do
with foo={%block bar%}"bar"{%endblock %}

lethal orbit Sep 12, 2020, 11:47 AM

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I think it'd be rather

{% block block_to_override %}
{% with title="foo" %}
<title>{{ title }}</title>
<meta...>{{ title }}
{% endwith %}
{% endblock %}

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Don't think you can just pass a variable from a child template to a parent, if that is what you'd want to do...

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But I mostly use Django for APIs and ORM lol

dapper tusk Sep 12, 2020, 11:53 AM

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Don't think you can just pass a variable from a child template to a parent, if that is what you'd want to do...
well, this is literally what I want to do, so I guess I will just send the title from the view

lethal orbit Sep 12, 2020, 11:58 AM

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Probably the most logical.

fallen peak Sep 12, 2020, 1:08 PM

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well, this is literally what I want to do, so I guess I will just send the title from the view
@dapper tusk you can also create a {% block title %}MySite - {%%} as a prefix and then in the child templates, you put {% block login %} Login {%%} or something, then you will controle from de template itself.

dapper tusk Sep 12, 2020, 1:09 PM

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elaborate please

fallen peak Sep 12, 2020, 1:11 PM

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This in the base template

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and then in the child templates

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just make sure to put before the {% block content %}{%%} as usually it represents the <body> of the page

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but yea, you can do either way, depends on your approach

rough tulip Sep 12, 2020, 1:41 PM

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"python manage.py runserver" shows nothing is there any solution ?

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 1:42 PM

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are you on windows?

rough tulip Sep 12, 2020, 1:47 PM

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yes

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 1:48 PM

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The last time I was on Windows, and had the same problem. Could not find any solution.

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I switched to Linux

rough tulip Sep 12, 2020, 1:48 PM

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Actually I got solution

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 1:49 PM

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really?

rough tulip Sep 12, 2020, 1:49 PM

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yes

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 1:49 PM

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what was it?

rough tulip Sep 12, 2020, 1:49 PM

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you have to remove "#!/usr/bin/env python" this line from manage.py

dapper tusk Sep 12, 2020, 1:49 PM

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@fallen peak the problem with that is I need the same title in multiple places

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 1:50 PM

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@rough tulip I see, i did not know windows even bothers reading shebangs

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well that's something new for me, thanks

rough tulip Sep 12, 2020, 1:51 PM

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no problem @versed python

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and us py instead python

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use*

fallen peak Sep 12, 2020, 2:29 PM

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@fallen peak the problem with that is I need the same title in multiple places
@dapper tusk it's the same title to all pages?

dapper tusk Sep 12, 2020, 2:29 PM

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one title per page, but on multiple places in that single page

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{% with rtitle=title|default:"redacted" rdescription=description|default:"redacted" %}
        <title> {{ rtitle }}</title>
        <meta property="og:type" content="website">
        <meta property="og:url" content="{{request.path}}">
        <meta property="og:title" content="{{rtitle}}">
        <meta property="og:description" content="{{rdescription}}">
        <meta name="title" content="{{rtitle}}">
        <meta name="description" content="{{rdescription}}">
    {%endwith%}

somber aurora Sep 12, 2020, 3:51 PM

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How to integrate TSX(TypeScript React) with Django?

dapper tusk Sep 12, 2020, 3:55 PM

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generally, you make an API in django and talk to that from react

somber aurora Sep 12, 2020, 3:59 PM

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How to do that?

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@dapper tusk

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 4:01 PM

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you create separate backend and frontend projects @somber aurora

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look into django rest framework

somber aurora Sep 12, 2020, 4:06 PM

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Oh Okay.

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Thanks

lethal orbit Sep 12, 2020, 4:10 PM

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How to do that?
@somber aurora better yet, use ariadne. DRF is getting dated.

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(And REST as a whole)

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 4:11 PM

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whaattt

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don't tell me

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I'm busting my ass over a drf backed

lethal orbit Sep 12, 2020, 4:14 PM

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Well, it still works

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and there's definitely jobs that require it

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But if I started a new project, I would definitely go GraphQL

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 4:14 PM

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god

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im gonna cry

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there's too much to learn

somber aurora Sep 12, 2020, 4:15 PM

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^

fallen peak Sep 12, 2020, 4:23 PM

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{% with rtitle=title|default:"redacted" rdescription=description|default:"redacted" %}
        <title> {{ rtitle }}</title>
        <meta property="og:type" content="website">
        <meta property="og:url" content="{{request.path}}">
        <meta property="og:title" content="{{rtitle}}">
        <meta property="og:description" content="{{rdescription}}">
        <meta name="title" content="{{rtitle}}">
        <meta name="description" content="{{rdescription}}">
    {%endwith%}

@dapper tusk Well, since theres a lot of dynamic meta tags, i think you'll be better of passing the variables as context on the return render_template() and grabbing them with the {{}} jinja syntax

dapper tusk Sep 12, 2020, 4:23 PM

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that is what this is doing

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I just need defaults

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 4:47 PM

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How can website change data without redirecting and wont letting others edit them
like mee6

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 4:51 PM

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its probably a server-client relationship

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 4:52 PM

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uh?

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 4:53 PM

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its probably preset

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the part you see is just a front end

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there goes many processes in the background

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one by one,

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as one finishes, the front end changes

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~~if im not wrong~~

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 4:53 PM

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@cyan violet look into Ajax, that's where you would want to start

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 4:54 PM

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Ajax is API-calls based, isnt it?

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 4:54 PM

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but dynamic websites are no childs play, and if you want to make a good looking one, you'd have to learn a frontend framework

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@vague ibex yeah it's present in most browsers nowadays

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 4:54 PM

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be it front end framework or pure html css, both are usuable

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 4:54 PM

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all actually

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 4:54 PM

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it depends on ur knowledge tbh

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imagine twitter being wordpress-based

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linkedin*

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 4:55 PM

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Could i use ajax to send forms without refreshing

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 4:55 PM

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it went out of use and was replaced by modern frontend frameworks now

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@cyan violet yeah

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 4:55 PM

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That could work

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 4:55 PM

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you can try websockets too

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 4:55 PM

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to check if user has perms i would need to get sessions tho

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 4:55 PM

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but you should probably switch to an actual frontend framework instead of Ajax

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 4:56 PM

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uh

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 4:56 PM

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Ajax works pretty fine with javascript

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do you need a front-end framework?

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ig DOM manipulation with javascript works pretty fine

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if you dont want to waste your precious time learning react/vue

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 4:57 PM

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or you can look into intercoolerjs if you don't want to learn an entire framework

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my experience with ajax has been not good, hence i am recommending alternatives.

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it it works out for you, then cool

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 4:58 PM

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you can use websockets tho

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no framework no hardwork

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 4:58 PM

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never used them so idk

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 4:58 PM

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once u learn using websockets, its way too easier and powerful

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today's servers use websockets

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for communicating

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be it PHP, node or flask, websockets are super common

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 4:58 PM

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So i could send from javascript to flask

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And other could not access it

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 4:58 PM

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@cyan violet yeah you can

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@cyan violet everything can be hacked, assuming there is a good hacker behind the computer

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but it's generally safe

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:00 PM

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i mean i dont want that my javascript would just send a request to a url with guild id that people could easily copy

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 5:00 PM

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i think you should implement it first, and worry about security later

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one step at a time dude

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:01 PM

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i have it done

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very badly

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that it just redirects you to a url where it changes it

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 5:01 PM

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then ask in #cybersecurity if you want to have security side cleared up

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that it just redirects you to a url where it changes it
@cyan violet ajax doesn't work that way, you must have done something wrong

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:02 PM

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i dont use ajax

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i just do document.location.href

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lmao

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and add values like

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/config/guild_id/nex_config

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 5:03 PM

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that's very inefficient and unmaintainable code imo

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:04 PM

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web sockets are better right

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 5:04 PM

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i have no idea

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i dont know what they are

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:05 PM

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Well i think you can make chat apps with them too

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 5:05 PM

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most chat apps would use something more robust than ajax

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something like an actual frontend framework

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:06 PM

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i mean web sockets

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 5:06 PM

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well maybe, idk

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:10 PM

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@cyan violet websockets are used for client-server communications.

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:10 PM

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uh

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So i could use socketIO?

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or something else

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:11 PM

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SocketIO is a multi-client chatting platform

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You can use it in your projects tho.

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What is the main thing are you trying to do?

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:11 PM

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Web dashboard

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for a bot

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:12 PM

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a single bot at a time?

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:12 PM

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yeah

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:13 PM

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so, basically you're retrieving data from your own database or from any other external database through APIs?

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:13 PM

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mongodb

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:14 PM

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Its simple. Just connect the server with the database properly. Check if everything is okay and then further, make the functions to interact with the front end accordingly

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Web dashboard
@cyan violet is it like a result for a searched input?

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:14 PM

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what

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:14 PM

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what kind of dashboard is it? when does it appear ?

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:15 PM

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Like mee6 simple

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:15 PM

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https://mee6.xyz/login

MEE6 - The Discord Bot

Manage your Discord server with leveling, moderation, Twitch, Youtube and Reddit notifications.

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like this?

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I cant really get what kind of dashboard you're referring to.

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:16 PM

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yes

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you can change bot settings

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from a dashboard

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:16 PM

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alright

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:17 PM

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socketio is made for chat rooms

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since it has join_room

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:17 PM

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You can just use websockets then

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:17 PM

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Socketio seems easier tho

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:17 PM

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socketio is a chat room -like thing

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you need a dashboard if im not wrong

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so where's the chatroom coming from?

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:17 PM

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nowhere

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:18 PM

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'o.o

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I can't really get what you're talking about.

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You want a dashboard so from where is the chatroom coming]

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:19 PM

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i just need frontend to send Something WHere it checks userid from sessions and it can send a guild_id with it too

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:20 PM

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so use websockets

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simple javascript or event listeners works too

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whenever someone clicks, you can pass on the details to ur backend

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the backend will process and do whatever is required and then send back the result

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:21 PM

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Does it keep session values

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Or i could just redirect users that dont have access

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:22 PM

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you can research more on websockets

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you can also cache the results for a particular user so that you dont need to do it again and again

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:22 PM

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Whats a good flask web socket

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:24 PM

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https://www.fullstackpython.com/websockets.html

WebSockets

WebSockets are a protocol for full-duplex web communications. Learn about WebSockets on Full Stack Python.

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I'd refer this to you.

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:24 PM

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k

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thanks

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:24 PM

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no worries 😄 ^_^

cyan violet Sep 12, 2020, 5:26 PM

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still reccomends socketio

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Guess i'll just use it

vague ibex Sep 12, 2020, 5:32 PM

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yea gl

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there are thousands of technologies available tbh

somber aurora Sep 12, 2020, 5:43 PM

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I've linked my Django Project to my react

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How to render my more tsx pages in my views?

hybrid gale Sep 12, 2020, 6:00 PM

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is there someone here who uses Selenium for testing or automating with python?!

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 6:04 PM

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i did once, what do you need? @hybrid gale

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also goto #unit-testing, you'll find better help there

hybrid gale Sep 12, 2020, 6:06 PM

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I wrote some code to automate googling stuff just for fun (as always ), and I want someone who writes python code better than me to look at it!!

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@versed python, this is the code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Nx8zwjSUU&list=PLu9cO88jTb8Awy5jYmg5Dc_WuedVKgDVs

YouTube

NewCode

Learning To Code: Python (Selenium) PART_ONE

I've used the selenium framework or library as you prefer to call it, in this case to automate some googling. Which wasn't the purpose of this video, and that is to collect some new Pythonic concepts and code writing along the way.

▶ Play video

brittle basin Sep 12, 2020, 6:13 PM

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Hello, I'm working on a flask app and deployed it to Heroku. The container is up but as you can see uwsgi fails. It seems it cannot bind port 80. Any idea how can I fix that?

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acoustic oyster Sep 12, 2020, 6:14 PM

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sudo

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haha

brittle basin Sep 12, 2020, 6:14 PM

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lol

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But where sudo? To deploy it I do "heroku container:release web"

acoustic oyster Sep 12, 2020, 6:15 PM

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are you using docker?

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you may be missing a chmod

dapper tusk Sep 12, 2020, 6:15 PM

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IIRC, heroku gives you a port you are supported to bind to in a PORT env var

quick cargo Sep 12, 2020, 6:15 PM

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yeah

acoustic oyster Sep 12, 2020, 6:15 PM

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yeah, I do not use heroku sadly, but that sounds right haha

quick cargo Sep 12, 2020, 6:15 PM

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like 5050 or something

brittle basin Sep 12, 2020, 6:16 PM

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I added this line, but doesn't seem to fix the problem

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are you using docker?
@acoustic oyster heroku-cli to be more accurate

acoustic oyster Sep 12, 2020, 6:18 PM

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you may not want a default, you probably want it to raise an exception if "PORT" is not defined

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so I would set 5000 to none, or omit it

brittle basin Sep 12, 2020, 6:19 PM

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Ok but where do I specify that? In the dockerfile?

acoustic oyster Sep 12, 2020, 6:21 PM

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I mean just on that line, you want to os.environ.get("PORT"), if the port is somehow wrong, you do not want it to raise a "failed to bind" error from port 5000. It seems that heroku sets the "PORT" environment variable for you.

brittle basin Sep 12, 2020, 6:21 PM

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Ok

acoustic oyster Sep 12, 2020, 6:22 PM

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The biggest thing I could think for that error is improperly configured permissions

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 6:22 PM

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@hybrid gale i thought you were a beginner, turns out you are better than me lol.

acoustic oyster Sep 12, 2020, 6:22 PM

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I do not use heroku, but here is what I have in docker for a django/nginx container

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versed python Sep 12, 2020, 6:23 PM

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again, i suggest you goto #unit-testing, they will help you

brittle basin Sep 12, 2020, 6:23 PM

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I do not use heroku, but here is what I have in docker for a django/nginx container
@acoustic oyster
Ok I'll try, I'll check that more thank you

versed python Sep 12, 2020, 6:23 PM

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@acoustic oyster what does the -d flag to useradd do?

acoustic oyster Sep 12, 2020, 6:24 PM

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if only I knew, LOL

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this is from another project, I actually did not write this. But thought it may help

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it sets the dir where the user will be created

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shhhh, haha

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I need this

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jk, patryk plz help, like you helped me

lethal orbit Sep 12, 2020, 6:35 PM

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@acoustic oyster what does the -d flag to useradd do?
@versed python sets the home directory to the passed value (/django)

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Also, I never used Heroku, so I won't be much help

nimble epoch Sep 12, 2020, 6:43 PM

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I want to build an e-commerce website using flask

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Can anyone tell me what flask extensions are great to do that?

native tide Sep 12, 2020, 7:01 PM

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bagisto ?

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oh that's php

native tide Sep 12, 2020, 7:17 PM

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I have a question, is it far more costly to use ModalViewSets inside Django rest framework than simple function methods ?

lethal orbit Sep 12, 2020, 7:26 PM

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Can anyone tell me what flask extensions are great to do that?
@nimble epoch You can always look at saleor. It's BSD-licensed (based on Django, rather than flask). Probably better than writing your own from scratch.
https://github.com/mirumee/saleor

GitHub

mirumee/saleor

A modular, high performance, headless e-commerce storefront built with Python, GraphQL, Django, and ReactJS. - mirumee/saleor

nimble epoch Sep 12, 2020, 7:27 PM

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@lethal orbit the problem is i want to write it from scratch

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More comfortable with my own program

lethal orbit Sep 12, 2020, 7:32 PM

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Then you need to decide on the features, and look for packages that fill those needs.

DB. Either use a DB library or an ORM (SQLAlchemy).
User management. See what the standard is (I never did user management in Flask, so I can't help there)...
Etc.

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Decided how you want to handle communications. API, or just templates?
If API, REST or GraphQL?

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Flask-RESTful seems like a good bet for REST. Ariadne is great for GraphQL, but I only worked with it in Django, not Flask.

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I do know they have support.

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Expect to do a lot of research and spend a lot of hours lol

acoustic oyster Sep 12, 2020, 7:58 PM

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I have a question, is it far more costly to use ModalViewSets inside Django rest framework than simple function methods ?
@native tide In general, there is probably a performance hit using a built in ViewSet, but I would not consider it anywhere near impactful enough to make the decision as to which one to use

buoyant escarp Sep 12, 2020, 7:59 PM

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Hi guys sorry to interrupt, which channel would you recommend I go to for my project idea help/feedback?

native tide Sep 12, 2020, 8:00 PM

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@buoyant escarp Whats your idea?

buoyant escarp Sep 12, 2020, 8:01 PM

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well it's like using a qr code to send the user to leave feedback on a website/webapp for a product they just purchased

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was wondering if it's possible using Django framework for it

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I've used Flask but never Django

nimble epoch Sep 12, 2020, 8:01 PM

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@lethal orbit thanks a lot man i really needed that

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And of course you mean user management like django admin??

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Or it’s authentication system?

lethal orbit Sep 12, 2020, 8:08 PM

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Authentication system.

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was wondering if it's possible using Django framework for it
@buoyant escarp That should definitely be doable. I think Django is a great fit, tbh.

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I use a Python back-end to generate bar-codes for a store with physical goods.

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This channel is a good place. You can also always DM me if you have some questions. I will be busy tonight though 🙃

buoyant escarp Sep 12, 2020, 8:13 PM

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Thanks man 🙂

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I'll be sure to check in some time later for your expertise

native tide Sep 12, 2020, 9:36 PM

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do you guys use elasticsearch with django ? Is it worth replacing django built in python search modules rather using elasticsearch?

marble carbon Sep 12, 2020, 9:44 PM

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built in Python search modules??

fast basin Sep 12, 2020, 9:48 PM

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How much hosting costs sites like tinypng has to pay if they have 100K daily visitors?

native tide Sep 12, 2020, 10:10 PM

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i mean standard traditional filtering

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like djang-search-filter

muted grove Sep 12, 2020, 10:54 PM

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Yo! I have a string that I am getting from a REST API, but a lot of the text is being displayed as HTMl placeholder codes, like &#39 instead of just an ' character. Does anyone know of a python module that handles replacements of these values with their actual meaning?

vestal hound Sep 13, 2020, 3:21 AM

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Yo! I have a string that I am getting from a REST API, but a lot of the text is being displayed as HTMl placeholder codes, like &#39 instead of just an ' character. Does anyone know of a python module that handles replacements of these values with their actual meaning?
@muted grove urllib.unquote

muted grove Sep 13, 2020, 3:38 AM

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@vestal hound I appreciate the suggestion, but that does not handle the specific ' placeholder type

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that only handles url placeholders like %20 and such

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I need HTML placeholders, not URL placeholders

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For reference, I found the solution, it is html.unescape(string)

zealous cloud Sep 13, 2020, 5:10 AM

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Does anyone know how to work with the offset parameter in flask? Im trying to get 400 search results to paginate in my jinja template, but unfortunately the propublica api https://projects.propublica.org/api-docs/congress-api/ doesn't include a limit parameter or a next page function. So basically I'm trying to loop through the offset, make the GET api call and then decrease the offset by 20. During each loop I'd have to save the results returned by the api call, but how do I store this data so I can pass it to my jinja template? This is how my code looks

@app.route('/search/member/<member_id>')
def get_member_info(member_id):
    """Retrieve individual government official data on link click"""

    offset = 400
    while offset >= 0:
        res = requests.get(
        f"{MEMBER_VOTE_POSITION_API}{member_id}/votes.json", headers={'X-API-Key': key}, params=offset)
        offset -= 20
        data = res.json()

Can someone please help me figure this out?

ProPublica Congress API

None

rotund token Sep 13, 2020, 5:38 AM

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hey guys! im bored atm and wanting to learn more html, css, and js etc. can someone give me a website idea n ill start it up and try to design it, please TAG me to get my attention thanks alot

versed python Sep 13, 2020, 5:41 AM

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@rotund token https://www.internetingishard.com/

Interneting Is Hard

Friendly web development tutorials for complete beginners

rotund token Sep 13, 2020, 5:49 AM

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something like a website idea

acoustic oyster Sep 13, 2020, 6:06 AM

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@rotund token website for your pet, a portfolio, or make a discord bot and make a website for it

rotund token Sep 13, 2020, 6:07 AM

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hmmmm ok

wind escarp Sep 13, 2020, 6:14 AM

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@zealous cloud you need to pass the variable in this case member_id to the template, to do that you can use this code:
return render_template('template.html', member_id=member_id)
After this you can call the variable from inside your template by doing something like this {{ member_id }}

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If you need to save results on each loop then better create a dictionary or list at the beginning of the function and append the result of each loop to that list or dictionary (depending on how you want go save things)

zealous cloud Sep 13, 2020, 6:19 AM

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@wind escarp Sorry I definitely should've posted the entire code block for the route. I've done this and got it to work, the api unfortunately only returns 20 results per call. Im trying to figure out a way to get 400 results via the offset method. I dont know how to save that data however, this is what Im struggling with. Here's my full code

@app.route('/search/member/<member_id>')
def get_member_info(member_id):
    """Retrieve individual government official data on link click"""

    res_object = {}
    offset = 400
    while offset >= 0:
        res = requests.get(
            f"{MEMBER_VOTE_POSITION_API}{member_id}/votes.json?limit=100&offset={offset}", headers={'X-API-Key': key})
        data = res.json()
        res_object.update(data)
        offset -= 20

    # return data

    members_data = data['results'][0]['votes']

    return render_template('search/officials_voting.html', members_data=members_data)

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Yea thats what im working on at the moment, but how would I save this data and continue to update it? Dictionaries dont have an append method, so is there a way to continually add the results of an api call to a dictionary?

wind escarp Sep 13, 2020, 6:23 AM

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Are you sure you are adding data to res_object?

zealous cloud Sep 13, 2020, 6:24 AM

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No i just printed it. Im definitely not

wind escarp Sep 13, 2020, 6:25 AM

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That's where you should add that and then you can retrieve it
Although I can suggest using sqlalchemy

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Flask-SQLAlchemy is easy to use

zealous cloud Sep 13, 2020, 6:27 AM

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This project is making use of flask-sqlalchemy. The issue with this feature is that this is government voting information that changes daily, so every time you visit the page to view voting records you should see the latest info, This is why im not saving this data, I would need to constantly update it.

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Sorry maybe I didnt explain that correctly or maybe my understanding is incorrect. It's my first time using flask-sqlalchemy. It's been great so far, but maybe I dont understand it well enough

wind escarp Sep 13, 2020, 6:29 AM

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Now that's new for me, I haven't worked around that yet so I can't help, sorry.

I am sure there are other tools to do that, it's not impossible but I just don't know how.
Try asking on flask reddit channel

zealous cloud Sep 13, 2020, 6:35 AM

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Yea thank you for chiming in. I've posted a question there. So i inserted a print statement after the data = res.json() line inside my while loop and I am getting the desired information. The issue now would be somehow saving it into one big object that I can pass to my template and use jinja to paginate the data. Thank you again for helping. Most apis I've worked with have a num pages or num results option you can work with so you can request 100 results with one api call. This api for some reason only allows 20 results per call. Oh well, that's the fun part about working with apis. They all work differently.

stable kite Sep 13, 2020, 6:41 AM

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I want to create a custom django model field.I want it to take email from user and store it in database in bytes form.How to create such a model field?

versed python Sep 13, 2020, 6:45 AM

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@stable kite override the save method and convert that field to bytes

stable kite Sep 13, 2020, 6:46 AM

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@versed python I don't want to create model but custom model fields that are encrypted

versed python Sep 13, 2020, 6:47 AM

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@stable kite maybe this will help? https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/howto/custom-model-fields/

Writing custom model fields | Django documentation | Django

stable kite Sep 13, 2020, 6:47 AM

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I saw that but i did'nt find answer to my question

versed python Sep 13, 2020, 6:48 AM

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what model are you trying to encrypt? Is it a custom user model or something else

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show your models.py

stable kite Sep 13, 2020, 6:50 AM

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I want to create open source model fields that encrypt that encrypts the data

versed python Sep 13, 2020, 6:52 AM

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show your models.py
@versed python .

stable kite Sep 13, 2020, 6:52 AM

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from django.db import models
from .cryptography import Encrypter,Decrypter
class EncryptedCharField(models.BinaryField):
  def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
  def from_db_value(self, value, expression, connection):
    print('called from_db_value')
    if value is None:
      return value
    return (Decrypter(value)).decode()
  def to_python(self,value):
    print('called to_python')
    if value is None:
      return value
    else:
      return Encrypter(value)
  def get_prep_value(self, value):
    print('called get_prep_value ')
    if value is None:
      return value
    else:
      return Encrypter(value)
  def deconstruct(self):
    name, path, args, kwargs = super().deconstruct()
    print(name,path,args,kwargs)
    return name, path, args, kwargs

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I am creating an open source project not creating this for my project

versed python Sep 13, 2020, 6:54 AM

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this looks right to me, whats the problem?

stable kite Sep 13, 2020, 6:54 AM

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I am working on this project because i did'nt find any project like this which encrypt data and and we can retrieve it again

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This is for text

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I want it to be for integer,email,etc

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 6:58 AM

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id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.Sequence('users_id_seq', start=100000000000000000000, increment=1), primary_key=True)
here the Sequence isn't working
it doesn't start with 100000000000000000000
but it startswith 1

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I'm using SQLAlchemy ORM

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with Flask, and Python

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Python 3.8.5

worn rapids Sep 13, 2020, 6:59 AM

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for you uni students out there, found this pretty cool repository for a Rate My Professor scraper (scrapes RMP webpages and uses their hidden API).

It's two years old so I started working on it, cuz it's useful for another tool I'm working on. Lemme know if any of u are interested in helping!

https://github.com/nananananate/ratemyprof-api

GitHub

nananananate/ratemyprof-api

Python class for scraping and searching Rate My Professor data from all professors of a single University. This class can have numerous uses, and can be easily modified for use in your RMP applicat...

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don't integers have a limit?

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 6:59 AM

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Anyone?

stable kite Sep 13, 2020, 7:00 AM

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@versed python can you help me?

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:00 AM

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anyone there?

worn rapids Sep 13, 2020, 7:00 AM

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@native tide did it reach the int limit?

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:00 AM

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I don't know

versed python Sep 13, 2020, 7:00 AM

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@stable kite I don't think I can, I am not that experienced about what you want, sorry

stable kite Sep 13, 2020, 7:01 AM

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ok

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:01 AM

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Well, then Do I need to make it, bigint?

worn rapids Sep 13, 2020, 7:01 AM

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http://jakegoulding.com/blog/2011/02/06/sqlite-64-bit-integers/#:~:text=From the datatype reference in,2**63-1).

INTEGER. The value is a signed integer, stored in 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 8 bytes depending on the magnitude of the value.

That is, you can only store values from -2**63 to (2**63-1). What does SQLite do for a value outside of this range? As we saw earlier, it switches over into floating point. Again, quoting from the SQLite reference:

SQLite, 64-bit integers, and the impossible number - Jake Goulding

We recently tackled an issue that seemed rather impossible – an
unsigned 64-bit value was greater than the maximum value that a
64-bit value …

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Might not be ur problem, so not sure anymore

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:02 AM

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I'll try bigint

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Let me migrate now

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forgot to migrate

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now not working

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@worn rapids I get like this

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INFO  [alembic.ddl.postgresql] Detected sequence named 'users_id_seq' as owned by integer column 'users(id)', assuming SERIAL and omitting

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I'm using PostgreSQL

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done

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removed everything

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and retried again

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but still the ID is same

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it startswith 1

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{
  "users": [
    {
      "email": "sairamkumar2022@gmail.com", 
      "id": 1, 
      "keys": [], 
      "name": "Sairam", 
      "password": "123456789", 
      "type": "developer"
    }, 
    {
      "email": "ponvannan2006@gmail.com", 
      "id": 2, 
      "keys": [], 
      "name": "Ponvannan", 
      "password": "28454", 
      "type": "developer"
    }
  ]
}

Ignore password. This is a testing database, which I have hosted locally

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99% complete

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Only the seq needs to be fixed

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 8:46 AM

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@worn rapids ?

maiden kraken Sep 13, 2020, 10:31 AM

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Hello, I am trying to style my webpage with flex and I am having so much trouble making simple 2 column page... It looks like this now:

📎 unknown.png

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How do i extend second row (highlighted) to the same width as first row?

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 10:55 AM

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Are you using a CSS framework @maiden kraken ? Most of them allow you to set a number of columns for your rows:

<!-- bootstrap example -->
<div class="row"><div class=col-6>Row 1 column A</div><div class=col-6>Row 1 column B</div></div>
<div class="row"><div class=col-12>Row 2 column A</div></div>

maiden kraken Sep 13, 2020, 10:56 AM

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Hello Patryk, no, I am trying to learn Flex without any bootstrap or any other framework

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 10:57 AM

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In that case, you probably want to assign some styles to your row class.

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min-width and max-width, or fixed width

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I think most frameworks use javascript to do some magic

maiden kraken Sep 13, 2020, 10:58 AM

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okay, this is kinda hard coded solution which I thought can be avoided. I thought there is some magic command which expands row to width of container

pastel osprey Sep 13, 2020, 10:59 AM

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In my flask application, I have something that spins up a new threading.Thread (cache eviction for rate limiting purposes). when i try to run flask db migrate, it never exits (obviously). Is there a way that i can prevent certain code from being run if flask is being invoked with flask db *, like an inbuilt environment variable or something?

frosty bluff Sep 13, 2020, 10:59 AM

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i have a query about django ?

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can any one help?

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 11:01 AM

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okay, this is kinda hard coded solution which I thought can be avoided. I thought there is some magic command which expands row to width of container
If you have a parent container, you should just be able to set width: 100%; no?

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You don't have to apply it to the row class. You can add a new class. .row-100 or something.

maiden kraken Sep 13, 2020, 11:02 AM

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yeah, I will try, I am definiteley doing something wrong, this should be much easier

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 11:02 AM

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can any one help?
@frosty bluff https://dontasktoask.com/

Don't ask to ask, just ask

maiden kraken Sep 13, 2020, 11:03 AM

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thanks a lot

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 11:03 AM

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NP

frosty bluff Sep 13, 2020, 11:03 AM

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ok

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 11:03 AM

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~~CSS is the worst part of web dev~~ 😄

quick cargo Sep 13, 2020, 11:05 AM

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css is great

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probably the most rewarding thing is seeing stuff come to life

frosty bluff Sep 13, 2020, 11:05 AM

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i want to sum of column and subtract with another column total and i know how to do this but i want this with filter like for example if seller = xyz then subtract the total anyone can look into it i will be thankful

cinder plank Sep 13, 2020, 11:07 AM

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i want to login to a website uiong requests

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but it doesnt seem to work

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where is the problem ?

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 11:10 AM

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i want to sum of column and subtract with another column total and i know how to do this but i want this with filter like for example if seller = xyz then subtract the total anyone can look into it i will be thankful
@frosty bluff can you expand? What do your models look like? What columns are you filtering? Do you want to filter on one column, or both?

maiden kraken Sep 13, 2020, 11:10 AM

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@cinder plank I think you are passing string instead of variable inside your dictionary

cinder plank Sep 13, 2020, 11:10 AM

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how can i change that ? @maiden kraken

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 11:10 AM

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Feel free to DM if you don't want to share the code publicly.

maiden kraken Sep 13, 2020, 11:12 AM

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@cinder plank well I dont know if its your full code but you probably have email defined as variable, but in dictionary you had something like "email" : "email" <-- this should maybe be variable?

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i assume you want to pass real email instead of string 'email'

cinder plank Sep 13, 2020, 11:12 AM

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yes

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i just put email and pass instead so people dont see my real account @maiden kraken

maiden kraken Sep 13, 2020, 11:13 AM

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ah okay

cinder plank Sep 13, 2020, 11:14 AM

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@maiden kraken

astral musk Sep 13, 2020, 12:24 PM

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what do you guys use for entering dates in a flask form field?

limber laurel Sep 13, 2020, 12:31 PM

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I want to asser that I opened the page successfully in django channels, but eve after a redirect the page status code is 200

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How could I test if it did not redirect and is in the same view as before?

versed python Sep 13, 2020, 12:47 PM

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Guys, is it better to ask a user to login separately after they register or just log them in directly with their new account?

small linden Sep 13, 2020, 12:59 PM

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@versed python I’ve seen it done both ways from my perspective I don’t see an issue either way. 🤷‍♂️ for convince I prefer to be logged in straight away ^^

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 1:14 PM

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If you need user to confirm (e-mail, phone number), you can wait for confirmation. Otherwise, no reason to do it in two steps, IMO.

cyan violet Sep 13, 2020, 1:46 PM

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cant people from somewhere else connect to my socketio?

quick cargo Sep 13, 2020, 1:53 PM

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I mean thats true for everything exposed yh

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which is why you implement auths and cors

cyan violet Sep 13, 2020, 2:24 PM

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atleast sessions

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still will be there

errant junco Sep 13, 2020, 2:26 PM

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is there any way to block direct access to django rest api, like from browsers and such, I want it to accept only ajax requests

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 2:26 PM

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Can we ask CSS here also

solemn thistle Sep 13, 2020, 2:28 PM

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https://github.com/leandross86/Mercado_Livre_Clone_React-Native

GitHub

leandross86/Mercado_Livre_Clone_React-Native

App do Mercado Livre utilizando React-Native e Firebase no Expo - leandross86/Mercado_Livre_Clone_React-Native

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 3:05 PM

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Can we ask CSS here also
@twilit dagger sure, it is web dev

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Being a python server, probably not everyone is a CSS expert though

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https://discordapp.com/channels/267624335836053506/366673702533988363/754658498867888219

marble carbon Sep 13, 2020, 4:02 PM

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@errant junco change this setting and remove the browsable api renderer
https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/renderers/

Renderers - Django REST framework

Django, API, REST, Renderers

mild fable Sep 13, 2020, 4:15 PM

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Is there a way to automatically replace all the links, scripts and hrefs in a pre-existing template with flask url_for or Django url?

I googled but couldn't find anything. Maybe I will create myself.

errant junco Sep 13, 2020, 5:10 PM

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@marble carbon ok I did that, browsable api is gone, but still there's plain json data itself that's still visible through browser

marble carbon Sep 13, 2020, 5:11 PM

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well unless you add authentication

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it'll still be there

errant junco Sep 13, 2020, 5:15 PM

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oh ok

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 5:18 PM

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There's a margin between my footer and the bottom of the page

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I did margin-bottom: 0;

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but nothing's changed

maiden kraken Sep 13, 2020, 5:24 PM

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hmm maybe you need 0px;? just guessing I am new to this stuff

sleek pecan Sep 13, 2020, 6:03 PM

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How difficult do you guys think it would be to pull try and convert this data table to work with Jinja?

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https://colorlib.com/polygon/octopus/tables-advanced.html

Advanced Tables | Okler Themes | Porto-Admin

Porto Admin - Responsive HTML5 Template

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I really like the "Rows with Details" one, i've never done this before lol

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Does anyone know of any bootstrap data table templates specifically for jinja?

warped timber Sep 13, 2020, 6:09 PM

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@maiden kraken align-items: stretch on the container

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https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ is really helpful

CSS-Tricks

Chris Coyier

A Complete Guide to Flexbox | CSS-Tricks

Our comprehensive guide to CSS flexbox layout. This complete guide explains everything about flexbox, focusing on all the different possible properties for the parent element (the flex container) and the child elements (the flex items). It also includes history, demos, pattern...

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wait

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no

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make a new container for the entire site

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and make that flex

maiden kraken Sep 13, 2020, 6:11 PM

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@warped timber thanks for response, I kept fighting and I've got to this conclusion:
}
.container {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}

.row {
width:100%;
display: flex;
}

.column {
width: 50%;
}

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but it was just trying blindly stuff in firefox developer

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 6:12 PM

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Does anyone know of any bootstrap data table templates specifically for jinja?
@sleek pecan Nope. But if you find a table that you like that takes json data, you can easily use it in jinja with javascript.

<script>
const table_data = {{ table_data_as_json }};
</script>
``` and feed that to your table. (Assuming `{{ }}` was how you printed variables in `jinja` - been a couple of years since I've last used that.)

maiden kraken Sep 13, 2020, 6:14 PM

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@warped timber that's the result:

📎 unknown.png

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 6:15 PM

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.column {
    width: 50%;
}
``` You might want to do like most frameworks, and define `col-1, col-2... col-12` classes, and be able to choose which one you use. `col-6` would make sense with `50%` width (like many frameworks do).

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But if you only have one style, it may be overkill.

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Something to keep in mind for the future, at least.

maiden kraken Sep 13, 2020, 6:17 PM

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@lethal orbit thanks a lot, that's a solid advice. I often saw scrolling through sites something like col-6, col-3 etc and I've wondered from where it comes from

sleek pecan Sep 13, 2020, 6:17 PM

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@lethal orbit Would you suggest anything else? I have a mongodb that I store data in, and I want to create an html site to view it and do searches

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 6:20 PM

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@lethal orbit thanks a lot, that's a solid advice. I often saw scrolling through sites something like col-6, col-3 etc and I've wondered from where it comes from
Yeah, they break up rows into 12, usually. You can choose something else. Then add a col-12 that takes all 12 (100%), col-3 that takes 25%, etc.

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Sometimes, it is better to blatantly copy the pros than reinvent the wheel lol

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@lethal orbit Would you suggest anything else? I have a mongodb that I store data in, and I want to create an html site to view it and do searches
@sleek pecan do you already have a front-end framework that you use for the site? Basically any table should work, if it supports JSON data.

drowsy rune Sep 13, 2020, 6:23 PM

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anyone familiar with django bakery?

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 6:23 PM

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Like my previous comment; find something you like and integrate it.... No point writing 10000 lines of JS to make your own dynamic tables 🙂

sleek pecan Sep 13, 2020, 6:30 PM

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Like my previous comment; find something you like and integrate it.... No point writing 10000 lines of JS to make your own dynamic tables 🙂
@lethal orbit Nope... building it from scratch right now

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I think i'm regretting creating nested dictonaries in the mongo documents, its just annyoing me now lol

sterile sphinx Sep 13, 2020, 6:32 PM

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Would python be good for making a web application for a controlpanel for a remote server where you can start and stop the server? or should i go for nodejs or any other things?

sleek pecan Sep 13, 2020, 6:32 PM

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I feel like I learn alot better when seeing examples of what the end result would look like, wheres a good place to even go to find tables that support JSON data? i've been lookin on github

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https://www.encodedna.com/javascript/populate-json-data-to-html-table-using-javascript.htm

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hmm

white tree Sep 13, 2020, 6:36 PM

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Hey all. I'm newish with flask/sqlalchemy and have built something that mostly works, except for when it doesnt. Unfortunately, it's not giving me any useful feedback when it fails beyond a 500 error response from apache2, and I would really appreciate if someone could spend a dozen minutes or so going over what Ive made to tell me if anything stands out. I'd normally google stuff and figure it out on my own, but I don't really know what Im doing wrong (especially since it does work, but then fails - and fixes itself - periodically).

sleek pecan Sep 13, 2020, 6:36 PM

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@white tree No error logs?

north venture Sep 13, 2020, 6:36 PM

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What are some front end secret tricks that less people know about?

white tree Sep 13, 2020, 6:37 PM

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sadly, no. it does log "wsgi error" - but its not actually mentioning whats wrong

sleek pecan Sep 13, 2020, 6:37 PM

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You can't turn on extra logging somewhere?

mortal socket Sep 13, 2020, 6:37 PM

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how do i disable static routes in django?

white tree Sep 13, 2020, 6:37 PM

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all I get is stuff like this:

19 [Sun Sep 13 09:47:07.200438 2020] [wsgi:error] [pid 14699] FROM pages ORDER BY pages.id
20 [Sun Sep 13 09:47:07.200544 2020] [wsgi:error] [pid 14699] 2020-09-13 09:47:07,200 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engin e {}

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I could, Im just not sure where/how to turn on extra logging.

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sometimes it takes days to get the error to occur, and thus far no clear indication of what causes it /why its happening, because it just seems to be like.. maybe a rate-limit caused by malicious bots? I do see a lot of scanner failures in my error.log, but I have fail2ban on so not sure how much else I can do to stop them from trying

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here's a full dump of my current error.log https://pastebin.com/uH06MUi5

Pastebin

1 [Sun Sep 13 06:25:03.967460 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 946...

Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

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the script in question is here https://bitbucket.org/ota_hak/spa/src/master/spa.py

Bitbucket

light willow Sep 13, 2020, 6:56 PM

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hi, i wanna ask something about flask. do u guys usually keep the main logic on routes or keep it separate? lets say i have a prediction using neural network, is it a good idea to put it on route files?

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 7:01 PM

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is it possible to iterate templates
like once u submit a giveaway with the values and everything
its creates/show the same template but with differect values
so like template for every pk giveaway

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 7:04 PM

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@lethal orbit Nope... building it from scratch right now
@sleek pecan fair enough :D
I like leveraging third-party things, especially for the front-end ~~since js is hell even if it is much better than it used to be~~.

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Would python be good for making a web application for a controlpanel for a remote server where you can start and stop the server? or should i go for nodejs or any other things?
@sterile sphinx what kind of server? starting a remote physical server is hard to impossible... whether it is node js or django.

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I feel like I learn alot better when seeing examples of what the end result would look like, wheres a good place to even go to find tables that support JSON data? i've been lookin on github
@sleek pecan I do as much of my web dev as possible using Quasar :p
https://quasar.dev/vue-components/table <-- these tables take JSON data

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 7:12 PM

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I have a div with margins inside a container, but the margins of that div aren't from the container border but rather from the page boundary itself. Why is this?

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So when I change the screen size then it doesn't align and overflows

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:14 PM

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Anyone have any sort of experience with Cpanel i want to shoot myself because of this trash

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 7:15 PM

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so like template for every pk giveaway
@frozen spear depends how similar you want them, and what you are using. Django with function-based views, and have the same template but with different values? You can create a context dict inside the view, assign it the values you want, and return a response, and access the context inside your template.

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:16 PM

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hello everyone

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I would like to move this button next to the prompt

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here is my html code

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 7:16 PM

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add css to do that

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 7:16 PM

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flexbox

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:17 PM

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<div class="tab-pane fade" id="Blacklist" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="blacklist">
  <label for="input1" class="titillium-web left medium">Blacklist a website:</label>
  <input type="text" id="GUI" placeholder="eg. https://google.com/" name="input1" class = "titillium-web medium-left"><br><br>
  <button type="button" class="button">Add Site</button>
</div>```

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 7:17 PM

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@lethal orbit bit of confused but i will do more research

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 7:17 PM

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@native tide If you put both inside a div then give that div display:flex; then it should automatically move there

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:17 PM

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I do display:flex right

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yea

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i will try

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thanks

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 7:18 PM

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@lethal orbit bit of confused but i will do more research
@frozen spear https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/intro/tutorial03/#write-views-that-actually-do-something is a good start.

Writing your first Django app, part 3 | Django documentation | Django

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 7:19 PM

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alrighty

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:23 PM

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lol

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            <div class="tab-pane fade" id="Blacklist" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="blacklist">
              <label for="input1" class="titillium-web left medium">Blacklist a website:</label>
              <div class="prompt">
                <input type="text" id="GUI" placeholder="eg. https://google.com/" name="input1" class = "titillium-web medium-left">
                <button type="button" class="button">Add Site</button>
              </div>
            </div>```

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 7:23 PM

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@native tide just add css

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and position it

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:23 PM

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.prompt {
  display: flex;
}```

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that's all i did

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how do I position it

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 7:24 PM

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do position relative then u have options like bottom tom left rigt

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play with them

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:24 PM

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alright

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 7:24 PM

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so like

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position : relative;
top : 50px; for example

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@native tide

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:24 PM

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ah okay

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 7:25 PM

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its also best to see live results like the inspect element in browser

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u can edit there then copy paste

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and save

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:26 PM

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it is a google extension

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I am helping my friend

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which is why i am so bad at html and css

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it seems like the prompt and button are stuck together

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actualy

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i can inspect elemtn

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if i open the html file

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but i can't change css

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because it's linked

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i will try putting only the button in the div

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not sure if that would defeat the purpose of a flexbox

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 7:27 PM

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no look

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if the

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button is linked with anothe text

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so like

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if u move the button

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the text moves too

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:27 PM

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yea

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 7:27 PM

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u gotta create an id for the button ten

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then*

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so like

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:27 PM

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ohh

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I see

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I got it now

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I move the actual button

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 7:28 PM

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<button id="some _ide">things</button>

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then in css

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button#yourid {
things
}

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:28 PM

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ok

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wait what was the purpose of the flexbox

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I can get rid of it right

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 7:30 PM

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what

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the bulma css framework?

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u can apply a css ontop of another css

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so if ur using bootstrap or flexbox or anything

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u can still

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edit it

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:31 PM

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oh ok

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 7:31 PM

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and create ur own css

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:31 PM

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tanks

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 7:31 PM

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🙂

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@native tide also if ur doing just few css
u can do it directly in the html so

<button **style="position: relative; etc..."**>hi</button>

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with the style attr

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 7:33 PM

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nice

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okay

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i am good now

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I can change position

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very good

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 7:33 PM

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nice

distant trout Sep 13, 2020, 7:53 PM

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hi

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can someone recommend me a better design here https://i.imgur.com/dOMcvKT.png

Imgur

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i have been using bootstrap cards for a lot of my stuff, i want something new, any ideas?

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 8:26 PM

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How do I change the text color of a bootstrap button when it is hovered over?

distant trout Sep 13, 2020, 8:33 PM

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!imporant on css

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 8:37 PM

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Are you looking for the :hover pseudo-class maybe? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:hover

MDN Web Docs

:hover

The :hover CSS pseudo-class matches when the user interacts with an element with a pointing device, but does not necessarily activate it. It is generally triggered when the user hovers over an element with the cursor (mouse pointer).

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 8:39 PM

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How do I change the text color of the button if I apply a:hover?

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Because otherwise it changes the color of the entire button

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 8:41 PM

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What's the CSS rule you wrote?

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 8:51 PM

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flask

def home():
    return render_template('home.html', title='CTF Foundation')

it says no template found, but the file exists

ember quest Sep 13, 2020, 8:58 PM

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o/ folks

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 9:01 PM

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@shy forge I wrote

.header-a:hover{
    color: #333333;
}

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And the button is

<a type = "button" class = "btn btn-outline-light text-light header-a btn-lg">Contact</a>

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Nothing actually changes with :hover

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:03 PM

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Did you mean .header>a or .header a? .header-a would be the class header-a

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 9:04 PM

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No I meant header-a since that's the custom class I gave the button

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:05 PM

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Oh, yup, see it. Then yeah, that's a css specificity issue. Try adding !important or add additional specificity.

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I personally dislike most of the the css libraries out there for this right here. They over-specify their CSS rules which makes the cascade break.

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 9:07 PM

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Ok thanks !important worked

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Now how do I align this button to the right of the navbar

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:09 PM

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There are precisely half a million ways. You're using bootstrap, right?

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 9:09 PM

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Yes

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:09 PM

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I think there's a class that can do it for you.

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I don't remember what it is cause it's been a while.

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(I use flexbox for stuff like that.)

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https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/utilities/float/ Try this one?

Float

Toggle floats on any element, across any breakpoint, using our responsive float utilities.

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 9:11 PM

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Float-right isn't working

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I tried -

.navbar{
    display: flex;
    background-color: black;
}

.text-right{
    justify-items: right;
}```

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No luck

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:14 PM

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justify-items doesn't support right as a value.

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 9:15 PM

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Html -

<div class = "text-right float-right">
                    <a type = "button" class = "btn btn-outline-light text-light header-btn btn-lg">Contact</a>

</div>

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:15 PM

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I think you need float-right on the child not the container.

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 9:15 PM

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I tried that too

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:16 PM

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/justify-content Try this on your flex context.

MDN Web Docs

justify-content

The CSS justify-content property defines how the browser distributes space between and around content items along the main-axis of a flex container, and the inline axis of a grid container.

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:22 PM

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I have a really quick question

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<input type="text" id="input1" placeholder="eg. https://google.com/" name="input1" class = "titillium-web medium-left">```

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if I wanted to style this in css

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would i do

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o shit

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whatever

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im blind

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for css i woudl do

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 9:23 PM

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Ok thanks justify-content:space-between did work @shy forge

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:23 PM

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titillium-web medium-left#input1 right

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titillium-web medium-left#input1

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that's how I would do it in css right

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is I wanted to style the input

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 9:24 PM

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just #input1 is enough

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:24 PM

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oh

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okay

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:24 PM

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You're asking how to select that element?

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:24 PM

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ye

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:24 PM

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And yeah, if there's an id, that's 4? points of priority and always unique.

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:25 PM

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wdym that's 4

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:25 PM

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Priority is how CSS determines which rule matters.

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:25 PM

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should i change id

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:25 PM

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It's loosely !import >>>> id > class > element, and if you combine them they are additive.

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So if you have two conflicting rules for an element, one is defined by a class selector, and one by an element selector, the class selector wins.

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:26 PM

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oh

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:26 PM

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If you have two class rules, the one defined later wins.

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:26 PM

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I am trying to change the width of the input box

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so how would i do it

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:26 PM

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If one has two classes, and one has one, the two class rule wins.

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:27 PM

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it's kinda short rn

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 9:27 PM

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pepo is now confused beyond consideration

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:27 PM

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Well, you gave it an ID to work with the form, so I'd use that.

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And it should just be the width attribute.

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:27 PM

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quasi berry Sep 13, 2020, 9:27 PM

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@twilit dagger what's your problem?

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:28 PM

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how to change width

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hold up

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lemme get my code

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:28 PM

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http://www.standardista.com/css3/css-specificity/ (Here's the fun poster about this.)

Standardista

Estelle Weyl

CSS Specificity

Some people are confused by CSS Specificity, especially with all of the (not-so) new CSS3 Selectors. The PDF may help make sense of CSS Specificity using plankton, fish and sharks.

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:28 PM

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oh nice

quasi berry Sep 13, 2020, 9:29 PM

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<element> {
  width: (your width)
}```

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:29 PM

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I am livesharing with my friend on my project and I'm editing a saved version in another editor and it turns out I was editing in the wrong editor

quasi berry Sep 13, 2020, 9:29 PM

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@native tide what's your probleme exactlly??

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:29 PM

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I am trying to change the width of an input box

quasi berry Sep 13, 2020, 9:30 PM

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change it from css file

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:30 PM

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lets gooo

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it's all a matter of me messing up id and switching editors

quasi berry Sep 13, 2020, 9:31 PM

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input {
  width: 300px
}```

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:31 PM

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yea i did that

quasi berry Sep 13, 2020, 9:31 PM

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result??

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:31 PM

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i was trying to figure out why it wasn't changing width

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i was using the wrong thing

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i used wrong class

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and right id

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then i used wrong id

quasi berry Sep 13, 2020, 9:31 PM

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check your browser version maybe.

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:31 PM

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no it works

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I can change the width now

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it worked

quasi berry Sep 13, 2020, 9:32 PM

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ok nice.

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:42 PM

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I have a quesiton

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for my blacklist a website thing, you are supposed to be able to add websites to the blacklist.

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What I plan to do is add a click listener in the js file

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and display all the sites on the page in the html

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how would I add a new element every time I click the button

shy forge Sep 13, 2020, 9:49 PM

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Not much different than Python: Somewhere in your js you define a global variable with an array, then when you press the button, you verify the input then deny_list.push(value)

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 9:50 PM

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What does r'^$' mean in Django

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:50 PM

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hmm

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 9:50 PM

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Or url(r'^contact/$')

native tide Sep 13, 2020, 9:51 PM

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prob some kind of regex

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lemon_thinking

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how is my_Btn null

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there is an element with the id my_Btn

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lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 9:58 PM

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What does r'^$' mean in Django
@twilit dagger r"" means raw string, ^ means "string start", and $ means "string end"

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so r"^$" refers to an empty string..

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 9:59 PM

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So why is it used instead of just '' or 'contact/'

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In fact, why is url() used instead of path()

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 10:01 PM

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url() is deprecated, pretty sure... it was the old django style

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https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/releases/2.0/

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Basically pre-2.0, you used url() and regex.

twilit dagger Sep 13, 2020, 10:03 PM

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Oh ok thanks

lethal orbit Sep 13, 2020, 10:04 PM

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And the reason you used r"^contact/$" instead of "contact" was probably because of the way the regex matching worked....

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If you don't explicitly mark the start/end, I think it might match http://example.com/sports/full-contact/hockey ...

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Not 100% sure on that, but something along those lines. Good to know regex and ^/$ at any rate.

vestal hound Sep 13, 2020, 10:21 PM

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So why is it used instead of just '' or 'contact/'
@twilit dagger the regex matches the empty string and only the empty string

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the empty string matches anything that contains an empty string, which is...every string

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a bit counterintuitive, I know

frozen spear Sep 13, 2020, 11:26 PM

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so when clicking the button enter its gonna go to another detail view url called entries
now its sending this erorr

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heres the url for that

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views related to that

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so the entrydetail view

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i tried couple of ways but didnt worked so i left it as it is now

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in the template

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somehow

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i didnt know how to define pk in the class

versed python Sep 14, 2020, 12:09 AM

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@frozen spear in the template {% url 'entries' pk=<some-int> %}

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in the class, it is present as self.kwargs.get('pk')

frozen spear Sep 14, 2020, 12:10 AM

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alright i will try that out

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thanks

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defining self

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hmm

versed python Sep 14, 2020, 12:14 AM

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defining self
@frozen spear you need to call it inside a method

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what exactly are you trying to do with the pk in your view?

frozen spear Sep 14, 2020, 12:16 AM

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so its a hosting giveaways app..im done with the giveaway detail view and everything but now,it should generate a pk url which is Link/giveaway(some number)/entries
in that link it will see all the entries of that giveaway

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so if the giveaway number is 15

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it should see all entries of the giveaway 15 and redirects u to a detail view with a template when clicking a button

versed python Sep 14, 2020, 12:26 AM

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class EntryDetailView(DetailView):
   # other stuff
   def get_object(self):
       primary_key = self.kwargs.get('pk') 
       return YourModel.objects.get(pk=primary_key)

@frozen spear

frozen spear Sep 14, 2020, 12:27 AM

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ok thanks

versed python Sep 14, 2020, 12:28 AM

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class Post(models.Model):
    text = models.TextField()

class PostImage(models.Model):
    image = models.ImageField(upload_to='images')
    post = models.ForeignKey(Post, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

How can I put a constraint in place so that only 3 PostImage objects can be related to a single Postobject?

vestal hound Sep 14, 2020, 12:33 AM

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@versed python I think that isn't possible without restructuring your table

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because that would amount to a check constraint on a groupby

versed python Sep 14, 2020, 12:34 AM

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that isn't an issue, i can just delete my table and start over again. Any idea on how to actually accomplish it?

vestal hound Sep 14, 2020, 12:34 AM

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which I believe isn't supported

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okay, I'm not super experienced in this kind of thing, but my initial guess

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is to add an additional field, like "image_index"

versed python Sep 14, 2020, 12:35 AM

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to which model?

vestal hound Sep 14, 2020, 12:35 AM

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then have a check constraint on that ([0, 3))

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PostImage

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as well as a unique constraint on (id, image_index)

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but I'm sure there should be a better way

versed python Sep 14, 2020, 12:36 AM

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that sounds like a pretty hacky way tbh

vestal hound Sep 14, 2020, 12:36 AM

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you could have a constraint on a materialised view

frozen spear Sep 14, 2020, 12:36 AM

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@versed python hey ignis,thanks a lot its works but its throwing this and i already specified a template :

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vestal hound Sep 14, 2020, 12:36 AM

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which I believe is the more idiomatic method

frozen spear Sep 14, 2020, 12:36 AM

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🙂

vestal hound Sep 14, 2020, 12:36 AM

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but then you have to know how to create a materialised view

versed python Sep 14, 2020, 12:36 AM

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you could have a constraint on a materialised view
@vestal hound im using drf, so views are not in picture

vestal hound Sep 14, 2020, 12:37 AM

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uh

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no

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a materialised view is basically a precomputed result of a SQL query

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in this case, a groupby count

versed python Sep 14, 2020, 12:37 AM

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so you're saying I should establish a database level constraint instead of a django level one?

vestal hound Sep 14, 2020, 12:38 AM

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wait

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wasn't that what you were talking about?

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doing this in Django is relatively easy

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but in general restrictions should be placed as deep as possible

versed python Sep 14, 2020, 12:38 AM

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I just want to associate PostImage with Post, don't really care which method accomplishes it

vestal hound Sep 14, 2020, 12:38 AM

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otherwise it's quite simple

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just override the .save method to check if there are already 3 images related to post

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and raise error

versed python Sep 14, 2020, 12:39 AM

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hmmm, that sounds like a good way

vestal hound Sep 14, 2020, 12:39 AM

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Python-level checks are always easier than database-level checks

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hmmm, that sounds like a good way
@versed python note that

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you can use bulk_update or bulk_create to bypass that check

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so you need to override those too

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alternatively, you could have a periodically running task that performs an integrity check

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it depends on how much effort you want to put in, I guess

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which is why a database-level check is always the best

versed python Sep 14, 2020, 12:40 AM

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I don't really plan on giving my users access to my python logic so this won't be an issue

you can use bulk_update or bulk_create to bypass that check
@vestal hound

vestal hound Sep 14, 2020, 12:40 AM

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since there is only one database

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and it can perform checks more efficiently

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sure, your call

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I actually have a problem like this