Category: Python

2018-02-27T18:13:23Z

The Flask Mega-Tutorial Part XIII: I18n and L10n

This is the thirteenth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how to expand Microblog to support multiple languages. As part of that effort you will also learn about creating your own CLI extensions to the flask command.

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2018-02-20T19:06:54Z

The Flask Mega-Tutorial Part XII: Dates and Times

This is the twelfth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how to work with dates and times in a way that works for all your users, regardless of where they reside.

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2018-02-16T22:25:45Z

The New Way To Generate Secure Tokens in Python

Authentication Tokens

When working with web applications, it is often necessary to generate passwords, tokens or API keys, to be assigned to clients to use as authentication. While there are many sophisticated ways to generate these, in many cases it is perfectly adequate to use sufficiently long and random sequences of characters. The problem is that if you are doing this in Python, there is more than one way to generate random strings, and it isn't always clear which way is the best and most secure.

You would think that adding yet one more method to generate random strings would confuse things even more, but unlike all the other options, the new secrets module introduced in Python 3.6 is actually designed for this specific use case, so from my part it is a welcome addition to the Python standard library. In this short article I'm going to give you an overview of this new module.

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2018-02-13T15:36:23Z

The Flask Mega-Tutorial Part XI: Facelift

This is the eleventh installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how to replace the basic HTML templates with a new set that is based on the Bootstrap user interface framework.

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2018-02-06T15:11:28Z

The Flask Mega-Tutorial Part X: Email Support

This is the tenth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how your application can send emails to your users, and how to build a password recovery feature on top of the email support.

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2018-01-30T18:07:32Z

The Flask Mega-Tutorial Part IX: Pagination

This is the ninth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how to paginate lists of database entries.

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2018-01-23T20:01:33Z

The Flask Mega-Tutorial Part VIII: Followers

This is the eighth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how to implement a "followers" feature similar to that of Twitter and other social networks.

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2018-01-16T20:22:10Z

The Flask Mega-Tutorial Part VII: Error Handling

This is the seventh installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how to do error handling in a Flask application.

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2018-01-09T17:32:42Z

The Flask Mega-Tutorial Part VI: Profile Page and Avatars

This is the sixth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how to create the user profile page.

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2018-01-02T17:20:33Z

The Flask Mega-Tutorial Part V: User Logins

This is the fifth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how to create a user login subsystem.

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