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Blafasel, add me |
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Flask is a microframework and yet it depends on external libraries. There |
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are various ways how you can install that library and this explains each |
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way and why there are multiple ways. |
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Flask depends on two external libraries: `Werkzeug |
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<http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/>`_ and `Jinja2 <http://jinja.pocoo.org/2/>`_. |
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The first on is responsible for interfacing WSGI the latter to render |
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templates. Now you are maybe asking, what is WSGI? WSGI is a standard |
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in Python that is basically responsible for ensuring that your application |
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is behaving in a specific way that you can run it on different |
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environments (for example on a local development server, on an Apache2, on |
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lighttpd, on Google's appengine or whatever you have in mind). |
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So how do you get all that on your computer in no time? The most kick-ass |
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method is virtualenv, so let's look at that first. |
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virtualenv |
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Virtualenv is what you want to use during development and in production if |
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you have shell access. So first: what does virtualenv do? If you are |
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like me and you like Python, chances are you want to use it for another |
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project as well. Now the more projects you have, the more likely it is |
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that you will be working with different versions of Python itself or a |
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library involved. Because let's face it: quite often libraries break |
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backwards compatibility and it's unlikely that your application will |
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not have any dependencies, that just won't happen. So virtualenv for the |
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rescue! |
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It basically makes it possible to have multiple side-by-side |
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"installations" of Python, each for your own project. It's not actually |
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an installation but a clever way to keep things separated. |
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So let's see how that works! |
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If you are on OS X or Linux chances are that one of the following two |
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commands will for for you:: |
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sudo easy_install virtualenv |
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or even better:: |
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sudo pip install virtualenv |
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Changes are you have virtualenv installed on your system then. Maybe it's |
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even in your package manager (on ubuntu try ``sudo apt-get install |
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python-virtualenv``). |
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On windows, just installed virtualenv from the `Python Package Index |
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<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv>`_. |
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So now that you have virtualenv running just fire up a shell and create |
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your own environment. I usually create a folder and a `env` folder |
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within:: |
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$ mkdir myproject |
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$ cd myproject |
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$ virtualenv env |
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New python executable in env/bin/python |
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Installing setuptools............done. |
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Now you only have to activate it, whenever you work with it. On OS X and |
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Linux do the following:: |
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$ source env/bin/activate |
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If you are a Windows user, the following command is for you:: |
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$ env\scripts\activate |
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Either way, you should now be using your virtualenv (see how the prompt of |
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your shell has changed to show the virtualenv). |
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Now you can just enter the following command to get Flask activated in |
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your virtualenv:: |
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$ easy_install Flask |
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A few seconds later you are good to go. |
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System Wide Installation |
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This is possible as well, but I would not recommend it. Just run |
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`easy_install` with root rights:: |
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sudo easy_install Flask |
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(Run it in an Admin shell on Windows systems and without the `sudo`). |
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The Drop into Place Version |
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Now I really don't recommend this way on using Flask, but you can do that |
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of course as well. Download the `dip` zipfile from the website and unzip |
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it next to your application. |
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