Best options for deploying Flask app for a non-techie

I have just built a Flask app on my home desktop. It uses a mySQL database and integrates into a payment widget which uses webhooks as part of its payment confirmation. Other than this it is fairly straight forward. Some pandas, some form data collection.

In terms of hosting, I need it to be on all the time, but I anticipate it will not have heavy traffic, nor will the space requirement be particularly large. I would like to integrate it into my existing website - I.e. access the app via my existing website URL.

Some cost to host is fine, but low is better, particularly given low usage and space requirements.

I am not particularly technical, so ease of deployment is quite important for me.

Please could you suggest some possible services / strategies I could employ to deploy this.


TIA

/r/flask
https://redd.it/1luxr0d

How to delete saved sessions if I'm using flask-session with sqlalchemy?

I'm currently using flask-session with sqlalchemy, and would like to delete all the sessions stored on my database when a user sends a specific request to an endpoint in my server. I thought I could use session.clear() for that, but it's not working.

This is my repo if you want to see it

/r/flask
https://redd.it/1lux7t4

Free-threaded (multicore, parallel) Python will be fully supported starting Python 3.14!

Python had experimental support for multithreaded interpreter.

Starting in Python 3.14, it will be fully supported as non-experimental: https://docs.python.org/3.14/whatsnew/3.14.html#whatsnew314-pep779

/r/Python
https://redd.it/1lvjrgj

Devs in Johannesburg

Hi All,

The company I work for is hiring devs in Johannesburg South Africa.

Specifically a Senior Developer and Jnr Developer who can be in office in Johannesburg.

But we are struggling to find good hires, anyone know where to find the best Django devs in Joburg?

Cheers!

/r/django
https://redd.it/1lvkmxb

Using OOP interfaces in Python

I mainly code in the data space. I’m trying to wrap my head around interfaces. I get what they are and ideally how they work. They however seem pretty useless and most of the functions/methods I write make the use of an interface seem useless. Does anyone have any good examples they can share?

/r/Python
https://redd.it/1lvrkpg

Thursday Daily Thread: Python Careers, Courses, and Furthering Education!

# Weekly Thread: Professional Use, Jobs, and Education 🏢

Welcome to this week's discussion on Python in the professional world! This is your spot to talk about job hunting, career growth, and educational resources in Python. Please note, this thread is not for recruitment.

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## How it Works:

1. Career Talk: Discuss using Python in your job, or the job market for Python roles.
2. Education Q&A: Ask or answer questions about Python courses, certifications, and educational resources.
3. Workplace Chat: Share your experiences, challenges, or success stories about using Python professionally.

---

## Guidelines:

- This thread is not for recruitment. For job postings, please see r/PythonJobs or the recruitment thread in the sidebar.
- Keep discussions relevant to Python in the professional and educational context.

---

## Example Topics:

1. Career Paths: What kinds of roles are out there for Python developers?
2. Certifications: Are Python certifications worth it?
3. Course Recommendations: Any good advanced Python courses to recommend?
4. Workplace Tools: What Python libraries are indispensable in your professional work?
5. Interview Tips: What types of Python questions are commonly asked in interviews?

---

Let's help each other grow in our careers and education. Happy discussing! 🌟

/r/Python
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Django monolith + microservice (chat) setup — need input on auth flow

We built a Django + DRF monolithic SaaS app about 3 years ago that handles:

* User authentication (CustomUser)
* Subscription plans via Razorpay
* Users sign up, pay, and access features

Now we want to add a **chat feature** that interacts with **WhatsApp Web**. Here's our current plan:

* Create a separate **chat microservice** hosted on another subdomain (new VM)
* Use **React** frontend + **Django/DRF + Postgres** backend
* The chat microservice will:
* Use the **existing monolith for authentication**
* Maintain its **own database** for chat-related models
* Have a model like `ExternalCustomUser` which stores the `UUID` of the user from the monolith

The **React frontend** will interact with:

1. **Monolith backend** (for login/auth only)
2. **Chat microservice backend** (for all chat features)

# My questions:

1. Since login happens only once via the monolith, is the **authentication latency** negligible and acceptable?
2. After login, when the React app sends the auth token to the chat microservice, will the **chat DRF backend need to validate that token with the monolith on every request**, or is there a cleaner way to handle this?
3. Also, since the chat microservice doesn’t have a native `User` model (only an `ExternalCustomUser` with UUIDs), how should I handle`request.user`in DRF views?

/r/django
https://redd.it/1lw4pa4

Is this safe to use ?

Hi everyone, i am curious about this code below.

re_path(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', serve, {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),


it usually solves my problem where i turned of the debug my django system, is it safe?

/r/django
https://redd.it/1lvjzdy

I built a minimal, type-safe dependency injection container for Python

Hey everyone,

Coming from a Java background, I’ve always appreciated the power and elegance of the Spring framework’s dependency injection. However, as I began working more with Python, I noticed that most DI solutions felt unnecessarily complex. So, I decided to build my own: Fusebox.

What My Project Does Fusebox is a lightweight, zero-dependency dependency injection (DI) container for Python. It lets you register classes and inject dependencies using simple decorators, making it easy to manage and wire up your application’s components without any runtime patching or hidden magic. It supports both class and function injection, interface-to-implementation binding, and automatic singleton caching.

Target Audience Fusebox is intended for Python developers who want a straightforward, type-safe way to manage dependencies—whether you’re building production applications, prototypes, or even just experimenting with DI patterns. If you appreciate the clarity of Java’s Spring DI but want something minimal and Pythonic, this is for you.

Comparison Most existing Python DI libraries require complex configuration or introduce heavy abstractions. Fusebox takes a different approach: it keeps things simple and explicit, with no runtime patching, metaclass tricks, or bulky config files. Dependency registration and injection are handled with just two decorators—@component and @inject.

Links:

[GitHub](https://github.com/ftbits/fusebox)
PyPI

Feedback, suggestions, and PRs are very welcome!

/r/Python
https://redd.it/1lw78pn

Implementing an in-app mailbox

I want to make an in-app mailbox using combination of socketio and flask (frontend being html,css and js)
is it possible,if yes then are there any tutorials and resources I can follow ...

/r/flask
https://redd.it/1lw6ym4

P PrintGuard - SOTA Open-Source 3D print failure detection model

Hi everyone,

As part of my dissertation for my Computer Science degree at Newcastle University, I investigated how to enhance the current state of 3D print failure detection.

Current approaches such as Obico’s “Spaghetti Detective” utilise a vision based machine learning model, trained to only detect spaghetti related defects with a slow throughput on edge devices (<1fps on 2Gb Raspberry Pi 4b), making it not edge deployable, real-time or able to capture a wide plethora of defects. Whilst their model can be inferred locally, it’s expensive to run, using a lot of compute, typically inferred over their paid cloud service which introduces potential privacy concerns.

My research led to the creation of a new vision-based ML model, focusing on edge deployability so that it could be deployed for free on cheap, local hardware. I used a modified architecture of ShuffleNetv2 backbone encoding images for a Prototypical Network to ensure it can run in real-time with minimal hardware requirements (averaging 15FPS on the same 2Gb Raspberry Pi, a >40x improvement over Obico’s model). My benchmarks also indicate enhanced precision with an averaged 2x improvement in precision and recall over Spaghetti Detective.

My model is completely free to use, open-source, private, deployable anywhere and outperforms

/r/MachineLearning
https://redd.it/1lw8lvh

Find the vulnerability in this view

https://preview.redd.it/qhez8asry1cf1.png?width=1770&format=png&auto=webp&s=181c3a46f3d43e7bbbb5b6e4dd6c62ec732bac32

I'm going to start a series to help people find vulnerable code.

There are multiple vulnerabilities in this snippet, but there's a riddle below to point out 1 particular vulnerability. The source of this finding was from Corgea's scanner.

The Riddle: I’m the kind of guest who stays well past the welcome. You could say I’ve got an open door policy, coming and going without much fuss, whether day or night, rain or shine. Though my hosts don't lock the gate, they let me linger far longer than I should. Who am I?

The code that's cut off in the image is irrelevant to the vulnerability.

/r/django
https://redd.it/1lwdew4

Open source django project

Hello Django developers!
I've created an open-source repository for a press and media system. I've set up the basic structure, so if you're looking to practice or contribute to an open-source project, you're welcome to join us here: press_media_api 😀

/r/djangolearning
https://redd.it/1lu93wr

I am trying to brainstorm ways of hiding slow API requests from the user

I have a Django app deployed on Heroku. Its basically a composite app that relies on several APIs brought together for some data visualizations and modeling.

So far, my requests and methods are quick enough to work at the user level. This was true until I started to build the most recent feature.

The new feature is a GIS visualization relying on a few datapoints from about 200 different APIs, from the same entity. Basically I do:

for every ID:
data.needed = get_data(someAPI.com/{ID})

I am currently just updating a "result" field in the model with the data every time I make those requests. Then I use that result field to populate my template.

Now obviously this is very time consuming and expensive when done at the user level, so now I am looking into caching. I know Django has a cache system for templates, which is pretty easy to use. Unfortunately, the value from this feature depends on the data being as up-to-date as possible. This means I can't just cache the template. I need to run these backend requests frequently, but hide the actual request time from the user.

My first hunch (if

/r/django
https://redd.it/1lwmpvi

Admin Panel is not styled in unfold when production when serving static files through nginx

in production

admin panel


in development

admin panel

i am serving through nginx when in production but even when debug is true in production the admin panel is not styled.
I am not getting what is happening. If someone done it, please help me.



/r/django
https://redd.it/1lwebjr

PicTex, a Python library to easily create stylized text images

Hey r/Python,

For the last few days, I've been diving deep into a project that I'm excited to share with you all. It's a library called PicTex, and its goal is to make generating text images easy in Python.

You know how sometimes you just want to take a string, give it a cool font, a nice gradient, maybe a shadow, and get a PNG out of it? I found that doing this with existing tools like Pillow or OpenCV can be surprisingly complex. You end up manually calculating text bounds, drawing things in multiple passes... it's a hassle.

So, I built PicTex for that.

You have a fluent, chainable API to build up a style, and then just render your text.

from pictex import Canvas, LinearGradient, FontWeight

# You build a 'Canvas' like a style template
canvas = (
    Canvas()
    .font_family("path/to/your/Poppins-Bold.ttf")
    .font_size(120)
    .padding(40, 60)
    .background_color(LinearGradient(colors=["#2C3E50", "#4A00E0"]))
    .background_radius(30)
    .color("white")
    .add_shadow(offset=(2, 2), blur_radius=5, color="black")
)

# Then just render whatever text you want with that style
image = canvas.render("Hello, r/Python!")
image.save("hello_reddit.png")

That's it! It automatically calculates the canvas size, handles the layout, and gives you a nice image object

/r/Python
https://redd.it/1lwjsar

Friday Daily Thread: r/Python Meta and Free-Talk Fridays

# Weekly Thread: Meta Discussions and Free Talk Friday 🎙️

Welcome to Free Talk Friday on /r/Python! This is the place to discuss the r/Python community (meta discussions), Python news, projects, or anything else Python-related!

## How it Works:

1. Open Mic: Share your thoughts, questions, or anything you'd like related to Python or the community.
2. Community Pulse: Discuss what you feel is working well or what could be improved in the /r/python community.
3. News & Updates: Keep up-to-date with the latest in Python and share any news you find interesting.

## Guidelines:

All topics should be related to Python or the /r/python community.
Be respectful and follow Reddit's Code of Conduct.

## Example Topics:

1. New Python Release: What do you think about the new features in Python 3.11?
2. Community Events: Any Python meetups or webinars coming up?
3. Learning Resources: Found a great Python tutorial? Share it here!
4. Job Market: How has Python impacted your career?
5. Hot Takes: Got a controversial Python opinion? Let's hear it!
6. Community Ideas: Something you'd like to see us do? tell us.

Let's keep the conversation going. Happy discussing! 🌟

/r/Python
https://redd.it/1lwscnp

I cannot deploy my web service no matter what!

I am doing a simple Python-based project with a basic frontend. it never seems to get deployed at all!

When Railway tries to build my project, I get this error:

goCopyEditThe executable gunicorn could not be found.


But here’s the thing — gunicorn==23.0.0 is definitely listed in my requirements.txt, and I’ve already committed and pushed everyth

# ✅ My Setup:

Python: 3.11 (same locally and on Railway)
Flask: 3.0.3
Gunicorn: 23.0.0 (listed in requirements.txt)
requirements.txt is at the repo root
I created a Procfile with this:makefileCopyEditweb: gunicorn app:app
My main file is `app.py`, and my Flask object is app = Flask(__name__)
Even tried adding a `runtime.txt` with `python-3.11.9`

# ❗ What I've Tried:

Regenerated requirements.txt using pip freeze
Checked that `gunicorn` actually appears in it
Used echo / Out-File to correctly make the Procfile
Confirmed everything is committed and pushed
Tried clean re-deploy on Railway (including "Deploy from GitHub" again)

# ❓Still... Railway skips installing gunicorn!

In the build logs, I don’t see anything like Collecting gunicorn — so obviously it’s not getting picked up, even though it's in the file.

# 💡 Any ideas?

Is there something I’m missing?
Do I need to tell Railway explicitly to

/r/flask
https://redd.it/1lw6xq0

html-to-markdown v1.6.0 Released - Major Performance & Feature Update!

I'm excited to announce html-to-markdown v1.6.0 with massive performance
improvements and v1.5.0's comprehensive HTML5 support!

🏃‍♂️ Performance Gains (v1.6.0)

- ~2x faster with optimized ancestor caching
- ~30% additional speedup with automatic lxml detection
- Thread-safe processing using context variables
- Unified streaming architecture for memory-efficient large document
processing

🎯 Major Features (v1.5.0 + v1.6.0)

- Complete HTML5 support: All modern semantic, form, table, media, and
interactive elements
- Metadata extraction: Automatic title/meta tag extraction as markdown
comments
- Highlighted text support: <mark> tag conversion with multiple styles
- SVG & MathML support: Visual elements preserved or converted
- Ruby text annotations: East Asian typography support
- Streaming processing: Memory-efficient handling of large documents
- Custom exception classes: Better error handling and debugging

📦 Installation

pip install html-to-markdownlxml # With performance boost
pip install html-to-markdown # Standard installation

🔧 Breaking Changes

- Parser auto-detects lxml when available (previously defaulted to
html.parser)
- Enhanced metadata extraction enabled by default

Perfect for converting complex HTML documents to clean Markdown with blazing
performance!

GitHub: https://github.com/Goldziher/html-to-markdown
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/html-to-markdown/

/r/Python
https://redd.it/1lwzlti

json-numpy - Lossless JSON Encoding for NumPy Arrays & Scalars

Hi r/Python!

A couple of years ago, I needed to send NumPy arrays to a JSON-RPC API and designed my own implementation. Then, I thought it could be of use to other developers and created a package for it!

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# What My Project Does

`json-numpy` is a small Python module that enables lossless JSON serialization and deserialization of NumPy arrays and scalars. It's designed as a drop-in replacement for the built-in `json` module and provides:

* `dumps()` and `loads()` methods
* Custom `default` and `object_hook` functions to use with the standard `json` module or any JSON libraries that support it
* Monkey patching for the `json` module to enable support in third-party code

`json-numpy` is typed-hinted, tested across multiple Python versions and follows [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).

Quick usage demo:

import numpy as np
import json_numpy

arr = np.array([0, 1, 2])
encoded_arr_str = json_numpy.dumps(arr)
# {"__numpy__": "AAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAIAAAAAAAAA", "dtype": "<i8", "shape": [3]}
decoded_arr = json_numpy.loads(encoded_arr_str)

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# Target Audience

My project is intended to help **developers** and **data scientists** use their NumPy data anywhere they need to use JSON, for example: APIs (JSON-RPC), configuration files, or logging data.

It is **NOT** intended for

/r/Python
https://redd.it/1lx167z