[AF] Can't run hello world app with Flask, UnicodeDecodeError

I'm trying to run simple hello world flask app but sockets throws an error on Windows 10, Python 3.6.4

File "D:\Python\Python36-32\lib\socket.py", line 673, in getfqdn:
hostname, aliases, ipaddrs = gethostbyaddr(name)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xab in position 80: invalid start byte
I know I could hack some code in the source of socket.py but I don't want to do that yet. My hostname is "Pitku" so I don't know what text/character is causing the error. Have already tried changing Code Pages but none have worked.

Is there any way to backtrace/fix this error?

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Python Top 10 Open Source of the Month (v.Apr 2018)
https://medium.com/@Mybridge/python-top-10-open-source-of-the-month-v-apr-2018-9e91343756a

/r/Python
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Learning Python before proceeding to Django?

How much Python should I need to learn before I proceed to learning Django?

/r/djangolearning
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Arbitrary poetic verse in Python. I don't know why I wrote this.
https://github.com/Astrokiwi/arbitrary_python_verse

/r/Python
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Flask 1.0 released
https://www.palletsprojects.com/blog/flask-1-0-released/

/r/Python
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package of the day: tqdm

hello and welcome to package of the day, the show where i type a few lines about a package i quite like and would be of use to programmers in a wide variety of contexts

today's package is called "tqdm"

A fast, extensible progress bar for Python and CLI

have you ever written a for loop that iterates over many variables and takes a long time to run?

to track its progress did you just add a print statement inside the loop indicating how far or which variable you're on, producing hundreds if not thousands of lines of text you only look at sparingly?

now you can do better. just import tqdm: `from tqdm import tqdm`

and wrap the structure you're for-ing in the tqdm() function like so: `for i in tqdm(range(10000)):`

now when you run your code, a dynamic progress bar like this one will automatically be generated when you start your loop:

`76%|████████████████████████████ | 7568/10000 [00:33<00:10, 229.00it/s]`

not only will it show you your progress; it'll provide you some simple metrics about how long the loop is taking and will take

try tqdm today!

/r/Python
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Is there any jupyter extension to search into jupyter directory by file contents?

I have tons .ipynb files.I want to search and filter by jupyter file contents. Hello everyone.I have tons .ipynb files.I want to search and filter by jupyter file contents. I do some search on google and find jupyter-tree-filter which adds a search box on your jupyter directory and filter files by filename, not by file contents.Is there any jupyter extension to search jupyter file contents?

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[N] Google Brain is expanding to Tokyo
https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/989619084357652481

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Checking your snail mail with Python/Docker and Slack!
http://opsandautomation.com/2018/04/26/checking-your-snail-mail-with-python-docker-and-slack-part-1/

/r/Python
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Flask 1.0 Released 🎉
https://www.palletsprojects.com/blog/flask-1-0-released/

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How can I use Python to automate mass-printing in my office?

Hi all! Like many of you, I have an office job with a lot of repetitive daily tasks.

I work for a travel company, and I've recently been put in charge of admin duties which involve physically printing out customized cover letters and selected information sheets (dependent on which tour / location we're sending clients to, which airline they're flying with, transfer companies etc) to mail to our clients pre-departure. I have to spend a lot of time selecting the right documents to send them, and it's really eating up my time when this isn't really my job role.

The problem is, no one else is going to do it, so I'd love to find a way to automate it so I can free up time to do my actual job.

My current theory at the moment would be a basic spreadsheet with boolean values for each airlines, tour operators etc, cover letters, then make a basic loop that grabs the client name, customizes and populates the PDFs and then does a batch print job.

Can anyone suggest a better way to do this, or specific libraries to use, etc? Would love to hear your suggestions :)

Thanks all, and have a good day!

/r/Python
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sqlalchemy query as dict

Is there a simple way to return the query result as a dict without much hassle?
I have this query: result = SomeModel.query.with_entities(....).filter(...).all(). With this I get the desired fields as a list. Now I would like to get them with their corresponding column name. Is it possible to do this in the query directly without additional computing? I have tried with label() and with_labels() but with no luck.

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Strong password and passphrase generator package with entropy calculation

Hey, longtime lurker here. Finally decided to give developing new packages a shot and released a package for generating cryptographically strong passwords and passphrases. I still have a lot to learn so I appreciate any tips or comments on how to improve!

[SPass](https://github.com/Tauag/spass)

/r/Python
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Someone is scraping my website, what can I do to automatically block them?

I run a real estate listings site and there is someone scraping the records one-by-one. I track each listing impression and I can see which IP addresses are scraping the data. I've been blocking the IP's but the scraper is now using 3+ IP addresses at a time to scrape.

What can I do to prevent the mad scrapes? Is there some way for my server to automatically ban an IP address if it hits too many impressions during a period of time?

/r/django
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Python Anywhere Blocked in Russia
http://blog.pythonanywhere.com/163/

/r/Python
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SQLAlchemy vs PostgreSQL Functions

Hey guys, we're using heavily PostgreSQL (we let it handle all business logic, mapping, etc.). We use Flask only to handle requests, call queries on the DB and then respond back the return from the Database.
Now a problem is that SQL is hard to read once it reaches a certain amount of complexity (and that can happen really fast). Production is very slow and the code becomes hard to maintain. On the other hand, one can argue that it's more performant than using a lightweight ORM like SQLAlchemy. Did any of you make similar experience? Would you let handle PostgreSQL everything, as we do, or would you move the logic to Flask?
I hope to read some advices.
Have a great weekend!

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Basic Docker (Compose) Django + Postgres Setup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90LCcim-wHQ

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A python multithreaded logging handler package that streams records to AWS services(S3, Kinesis)
https://github.com/omrikiei/aws_logging_handlers

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Changing Matplotlib fonts: Neophyte who uses Juno Jupyter for scientific plotting.

I know this may be a little more specialized to Matplotlib, as I’m one of those lowly matl*b to Python ship jumpers, for the purposes of plotting pretty data and performing analyses on it. But I’m stuck somewhere that while trivial, will nevertheless drive me nuts as a strongly visual person: If anyone could provide guidance for changing the font on either a global or per-plot basis for all labels and legends in a plot you would have my eternal gratitude. Using rcParams as in the matplotlib documentation gives:

/home/nbuser/anaconda3_501/lib/python3.6/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:1320: UserWarning: findfont: Font family ['sans-serif'] not found. Falling back to DejaVu Sans
(prop.get_family(), self.defaultFamily[fontext]))

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[AF] Jinja macros and field formatting.

Within jinja2 templates I'm using a macro to render the fields in my forms. The macros handle all the formatting, label placement, validators, etc. Like so:

_forms.html
{% macro render_field(field) %}
<hr class="forms">
{{ field.label }}
{% if field.flags.required %}
*
{% endif %}
<br>
{{ field(**kwargs)|safe }}
{% if field.errors %}
{% for error in field.errors %}
<span class="flash">{{ error }}</span><br>
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
{% endmacro %}


template code:
{% from "_forms.html" import render_field %}
{% extends "base.html" %}

{{ render_field(form.search_by) }}
{{ render_field(form.search_term) }}

{% endblock %}


My question is this: is there any way to pass width/height values to the engine via the macros? If you simply declare the fields directly you can pass parameters to format the field, but these parameters break the macros.

template code:
{% extends "base.html" %}

{{ form.description.label }}{{ form.description(size="100") }}

{% endblock %}

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