How to implement notification in Flask
Implementing notifications in Flask goes way beyond using flash. You have to add this snippet in your templates: <div id="flashed-messages"> {% with m…
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Securing Flask: Preventing Open Redirect Vulnerabilities
If your Flask application uses a next parameter to redirect users after login, you might be vulnerable to Open Redirects. This is a subtle but dangerous vulnera…
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How to Define Global Template Variables in Flask
When building Flask applications, it is very common to reuse the same variables across multiple templates. These may include application-level configuration, branding details, environment flags, or…
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How to disable csrf protection for particular routes in Flask-wtf
Flask-wtf recommends using @csrf.exempt to disable csrf protection for particular routes as in the case of APIs. Now this is pretty confusing. What does csrf refers to? I…
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How to use Flask-admin with Flask-login
Steps: Have a login route accept a next parameter Define your model view and admin index view Register models In the example below, auth.login is the lo…
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How to correctly use the next parameter in login and logout in Flask
Here is a sample login and logout route taken from the shopyo web framework. You can learn …
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The Zen Of Python: A Most In Depth Article
Note: I wrote a quite complete article on the Zen but for some reason it went down in seo history. I am tired seeing people write ‘in-depth’ article with commentaries from the top of their head…
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Python Generators: The In-depth Article You've Always Wanted
Table of contents Why were Python generators introduced? How do Python Generators differ from normal functions? Execution flow Immediate usefulness …
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Realtime CPU monitor using PyGame
Here’s a realtime CPU monitor using PyGame: ''' Author: https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Instructions: pip install psutil hooman==0.3.6 ''' from hooman…
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Display Most Frequent Words Using Pygame
""" Author: Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer Github: https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Instructions: pip install hooman """ from hooman import Hooman import pygame from …
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Python: Running makefile on windows using git mingw bash
Linux owners configure makefiles so as to have easy commands to perform operations such as make dependencies to pip install required packages. Here are the dry simple steps to run make…
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How to run a Flask Linux-only App on Windows - The AFPy Site
There are in the Python world many Flask Linux-only apps. However in many case, with some twerking we can make them work on Windows. We’ll take the case of the AFPy site. First fork the …
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