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Tagged with python web-development
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How encrypting website data works
If i wanted to encrypt a password on my website before its sent to the server, would i have to encrypt the password in javascript on the frontend for it to be hidden over the interent or could it be ...
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What is a good approach to handling exceptions?
I have trouble reconciling "best practices" and real-world approaches to handling exceptions. In my day to day routine, I find myself running into the following examples:
try:
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1answer
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Abstracting a set of services behind a common interface
Yay or nay? I have several related but separate services that are to be run in different processes. They execute a particular task unique to the service. Their call signature is similar, but the name ...
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1answer
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An approach to send the contents of a file on the server to the client in real-time
I have a relatively simple front in good ol' JQuery, that makes a POST Request to a Flask Python web server, that runs a Python script using the subprocess module. Here's the whole route for ...
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1answer
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Choosing the right architecture for my web application
I've started working on my web application and I'm stuck at the design stage. I cannot decide which web technologies would be the most suited to this project. Let me explain what I want to achieve:
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3answers
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How to manage an existing web application?
I am a student that will finish his degree in like 7 months. I have a side job where I am the only programmer for a small company. The web application is for invoices and employee working hours. This ...
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1answer
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Options to handle large (multi-gigabyte) file uploads
How would you implement a very large file upload functionality with a Django application and S3?
In my side job as a photographer, I have several clients for which I have a need to share multi-...
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3answers
654 views
Options for the RESTFul approach for follow and unfollowing
I'm looking at implementing a new RESTFul call where a User can follow/unfollow a generic 'thing' item, but I need to know the best or common approach below, 1 or 2?
1) A GET or POST on the ...
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1answer
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Developing an app using Django. Do I design front-end after app? Or develop Django to fit UI? [duplicate]
Edit: this differs from a similar question because I'm interested specifically in how Django works with the front-end. I.e. what is considered best practice when developing using the Django framework.
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2answers
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Am i looking at HTML / Django the wrong way? [closed]
So I'm comfortable programming in Python, I love the minimalist nature of the language. However, I haven't been exposed to any Django yet.
I do know html, css etc for web design but when making ...
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1answer
817 views
Can I use Qt open-source for my web-scraping website? [closed]
I apologize if I should be understanding this more readily but I'm a little new to this and dont understand the LGPL license. Here is the FAQ for it: http://www.qt.io/qt-licensing-terms/
I am making ...
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3answers
4k views
What's special about “non-blocking” node.js?
In the short chapter, What is Node by McLaughlin, he writes:
"Node has no blocks, no threads competing for the same resource (Node
is happy to just let things happen however they happen), nothing ...
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2answers
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Is there a way to efficiently allow a user to upload multiple content at once for e-commerce type sites?
Sellers on large sites like Amazon and Newegg need to provide names, descriptions, and images for their products to be displayed on the e-commerce sites.
These sellers could have 10000+ products to ...
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1answer
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How do we pass data between two Amazon instances?
I'm trying to create a website where the user enters a few numbers, these numbers are fed into some equations, and the output of these equations is emailed to the user. I'm using Python 2.7 for ...
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1answer
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SQLite with two python processes accessing it: one reading, one writing
I'm developing a small system with two components: one polls data from an internet resource and translates it into sql data to persist it locally; the second one reads that sql data from the local ...
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2answers
457 views
Python/Database Website development [closed]
I want to create my own website that would allow me to acess a database in the server and do inserts and lookups in a user friendly way. I am a seasoned user of linux and C/C++, and also have ...
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5answers
3k views
How can I keep a production Python environment secure?
Most of my work is creating websites in Django (a Python web framework) and deploying them to my own or clients' servers. I work from a virtualenv to separate site from system packages and have ...
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4answers
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How to create different paths for users to take through the pages in my site?
I have a website where users are directed to go through a sequence of pages to perform a sequence of work tasks (transcribe a paragraph, answer a survey, interact with another user, etc). For short, ...
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8answers
5k views
Do frameworks put too much abstraction? [closed]
I've been programming for a little under a year and have some experience writing systems applications, web apps, and scripts for businesses/organizations. However, one thing I've never really done is ...
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1answer
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Why should I use a web framework's template language over python's templating options?
I'm coming from a python CGI background and was wanting to move into something more contemporary and think I have decided upon web.py as the framework I would like to use. In regards to templating, ...
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2answers
541 views
Which web framework to use under Backbonejs? [closed]
For a previous project, I was using Backbonejs alongside Django, but I found out that I didn't use many features from Django. So, I am looking for a lighter framework to use underneath a Backbonejs ...
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4answers
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How to develop front end (UI) for my Django website
I am learning Django and new to web development. Please excuse me if you find this question too dumb.
So, I am creating a Facebook application using Django which I would like to host in Google App ...
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1answer
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Flexible cloud file storage for a web.py app?
I'm creating a web app using web.py (although I may later rewrite it for Tornado) which involves a lot of file manipulation. One example, the app will have a git-style 'commit' operation, in which ...
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1answer
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Handling and organizing data from save file?
I'm working on a webapp (python/javascript) to modify a game's save file. The file has certain bytes representing player information, such as the gun, the equipment, etc. The idea is to show an ...
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2answers
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Migrating from Python to Scala wise when a lot of work is already done in Python?
Me and my friend are developing a web-app in Python + Flask + PostgreSQL. We have been working on it for the past few months and have developed a lot of schema/use-cases specific to Python + Flask + ...
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1answer
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python login form vulnerability?
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Login Page</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<CENTER>
<FORM method="POST" action="http://yourserver/cgi-bin/login.py">
<paragraph> Enter ...
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5answers
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Can I create a desktop Python GUI application and run it as a web app?
I'm working on a project where multiple (several hundred perhaps) users will need to run an application remotely. We thought that running a web app would be the best course of action to go. (Note: ...
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3answers
13k views
How does Python work?
This question may seems a little bit silly, but what the heck.
I started to learn Python. I know basic syntax, etc.
When I work with HTML, PHP, etc., I simply write code, put it inside .html or ....
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2answers
3k views
Web development in a small team - best practices
Currently developing a web app in a team of two maybe three in the near future. Tech stack is at the moment : flask, mongodb, and extjs for the fontend. I currently have the project under version ...
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3answers
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Creating a Django development and production app
I just got started on some web development, and got my feet wet by creating a basic facebook app using Django. I am thinking of publishing the app, and consequently now need a development app that I ...
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8answers
3k views
Choosing between CL and Python for web development
I'm coming from a Java background and after I read this little essay by Paul Graham I started wondering about picking up a new language namely Common Lisp to speed up my work (I'm a web developer).
I'...
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3answers
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Tips/Process for web-development using Django in a small team [closed]
We're developing a web app using Django and we're a small team of 3-4 programmers — some doing the UI stuff and some doing the Backend stuff. I'd love some tips and suggestions from the people here. ...
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5answers
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How difficult is Python and Django to pick up for a Java/.NET web developer? [closed]
I just started a new job a couple months ago at a small company where I am currently leading all development efforts present and future. I personally have years of experience in software design and ...
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13answers
948 views
Type of computer for a developer on the road [closed]
I am planning to be traveling through eurasia and asia (russia, china, korea, japan, south east asia...) for a while and, although there are plenty of marvelous things to see and to do, I must keep on ...
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3answers
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Is there any way to use Python to replace Flash for in browser animation, gaming, whatever? [closed]
Is there any way to use Python to replace Flash for in browser animation, gaming, webapps, whatever? Pretty straight-forward IMHO. Does anyone know how to do this?
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2answers
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What are hooks? [closed]
I keep coming across this term hooks in various programming articles. However I don't understand what they are, and how can they be used. So I just wanted to know what is the concept of hooks; if ...
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1answer
540 views
How to approach web app development?
I have been going through Flask and it seems that now I have a decent understanding to go ahead and build a web application. However I want to know how would I approach the problem. For eg: I decide ...
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6answers
129k views
How do I learn Python from zero to web development? [closed]
I am looking into learning Python for web development.
Assuming I already have some basic web development experience with Java (JSP/Servlets), I'm already familiar with web design (HTML, CSS, JS), ...
