Django best practices to pass user groups to client side

Hey Django devs!

 

I'm fairly new to django, I'm currently building an app that has users that belong to different groups, the client side app has different behavior depending on the user groups, so all the scripts on the site should be able to figure out to what groups the user belongs to. I'm currently dynamically adding the groups to a script with a global scope so that all other scripts can access the groups, but I feel like there has to be a better way to do this, any ideas? Any way to store those values in a cookie from django and then accesing it with the js?

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Settings.py for sending emails

Rather new to programming. I want to set up a simple form which will send it's content to an admin's email. What I'm failing to understand is what happens in settings.py. I have:

EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'name@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password' #
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

My questions are:

1. Is EMAIL_HOST_USER referring to the admin's email?
2. In EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD should I write the password with which the admin connects to his email (related to this, I've found a suggestion for gmail accounts to use [DisplayUnlockCaptcha](https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha), added a new app, and a code was generated. Must that be copy-pasted at EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD?)
3. What's with the EMAIL_PORT? How do I know which one works for me?

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Start Getting and Working with Data with "Data Acquisition and Manipulation with Python"
https://ntguardian.wordpress.com/2017/11/09/start-getting-and-working-with-data-with-data-acquisition-and-manipulation-with-python/

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Exploring Line Lengths in Python Packages, Pythonic Perambulations, Jake Vanderplas
http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2017/11/09/exploring-line-lengths-in-python-packages/

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Machine Learning With Python – Introduction
http://devarea.com/machine-learning-with-python-introduction/

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I eventually want to port my Django web site/app over to mobile. Is it necessary that I incorporate DRF ASAP?

It'll be for both the browser and mobile.
I decided browser first, though, since I've already invested quite a bit of time into it.
From my understanding, adding an API using DRF would *not* mean a complete rewrite of my current class-based-view django app. Instead, it only means an addition of new code--"api" folder, serializers, new url routes, etc.


Is this actually the case? Can I freely continue working on the browser version and simply add DRF for mobile later down the line?
If so, how does this change if I decide to add a frontend framework to my browser such as React?
React may also be frontend framework of choice for mobile given React Native.

But if this isn't the case, should I have started with DRF? What considerations should I make now to ensure that the eventual browser-mobile porting works out?

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Django UnboundLocalError when submitting an empty form

Hello, I'm new to django and I'm trying to build something. I made a form for users to comment on a post and it works well but when I tried to submit the form without any content there was a big error on the screen which says I've referenced a local variable before assignment. Can anybody tell me how to fix that?? I'll be very thankful.

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A Python library for particle swarm optimization

Hi! Few months ago I shared a very simple project in this sub, and thanks to your suggestions and comments, I learned a lot and was able to transform (or "overhaul") it into a full package. First off, thank you very much!

I would like to present [PySwarms](https://github.com/ljvmiranda921/pyswarms), a Python library for particle swarm optimization. Aside from performing basic optimization, you can inspect the behavior of your swarm and even look for the best hyper-parameters to control swarm behavior. Moreover, the base classes here can be used to rapidly prototype swarm variants. Check it out!

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Trying to plot a Fourier transform.

I have to plot y = (4/np.pi) * sum((np.sin(n*x))/(n)) where I sum over x. I have shown attempt below, my problem is that is sums over x and n. I don't know how to fix this.

n = np.linspace(1, 11, 11)
x = np.arange(101)
y = (4/np.pi) * np.sum((np.sin(n*x))/(n))
plt.plot(x,y)

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Python Entry job

HI,
im self learning Python for a bout 8 months now, and i think i am intermediate level, but i have a long and solid background as hardware technician, and help desk. i wanna ask 2 questions, first: considering my experience in hardware and IT in general and my age 41! which road i should choose in python? i mean what is most beneficial field that fits to my own work. second: for some one with my understanding of python, what kind a job i can get as an entry level programming? thanks guys

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Nominations for the Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize 2017
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/nov/10/nominations-malcolm-prize-2017/

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Following my last post, I am writing the next post in my compilers series. This week is about writing the lexer in python!
http://yoseph.tech/completely-useless-fun-project-parts-of-the-compiler/

/r/Python
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Emacs as a Django IDE. What's the best way to do this these days?

**tl;dr: There hasn't been a discussion about this on this sub in over a year and I'm curious what tools there are available to configure Emacs as an effective "cloud-based" (over SSH) IDE for Django.**

I've been going through various text editors and IDEs and while I've found some I like, I'd really like to centrally host it myself instead of having synced environments between multiple machines and operating systems. Enter cloud-based IDEs. I want to self-host it so that immediately rules out the bulk of the options out there. The self-hosted options I've found haven't been terribly impressive. Then I remembered since I never bothered to learn Emacs or Vim, I had no idea what people who insisted on using them as IDEs were on about. After some research, I decided to try Emacs first.

So my first trial is going to be Emacs hosted in an LXD container that I just SSH into for development. While I'm not comfortable navigating it without a cheatsheet yet I very much like the layout and working in the terminal. My question is how best to configure it for modern versions of Django and Python development?

I found [this page on the wiki](https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Emacs) but it appears to be a bit outdated so I'd like to know if there are any other options I should try (and possibly add to the wiki). The first tool, python-django.el hasn't been updated in over two years and the intro link is dead. Pony Mode looks actively maintained and I intend to try it. New django-mode claims to be the newest and best but there's zero documentation and it doesn't look very actively maintained.

Anything else I should be looking into?

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Large file upload to S3
https://www.codingforentrepreneurs.com/blog/large-file-uploads-with-amazon-s3-django/

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[AF] Explanation of `pip install --editable .`

The current [Flask documentation shows](http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/tutorial/packaging/) that flask apps should be created as a package. That includes a `setup.py` and `MANIFEST.in`.

If I'm not distributing my app for someone else to use, why would I do this?

If I didn't want to go through this setup, how would I configure my app so I could follow the example? e.g.


export FLASK_APP=flaskr
export FLASK_DEBUG=true
flask run


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[N] Tile: A New Language for Machine Learning
http://vertex.ai/blog/tile-a-new-language-for-machine-learning#

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How to work with Django in Windows 10?

Hi. In all my Django programming life I have been developing in Ubuntu Linux. I still use Ubuntu at home. It's awesome. Now I got a new job and I have to work on Windows (10). I have successfully installed WSL and bash terminal which I use for ssh connections and other things. So, now what? Should I keep using bash terminal in windows 10 for all my developing purposes? (Python, Django, vim, PostgreSQL, virtualenvrapper, etc) or should I go full-on-windows and install PyCharm (which is my main working IDE), Windows-PostgreSQL, windows-python, virtulanevwrapper-win, etc and use bash-terminal only for ssh?

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Tiket untuk peserta PyCon pertama di Indonesia telah tersedia. Grab it fast before you missed it, guys!

https://goo.gl/xDLgan

use python pandas to show csv to placeholder in web file

I have a csv file and need to convert it to view it in html. I know python pandas can do it with

df = pd.read_csv("myfile.csv")
df.to_html('output.html')'

but I don't want to show it in single web page, I have index.html file and I want to show it in there but in another section.

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Please help to improve the awesome-jupyter list on github!

You can *fork* and pull-request the [github](https://github.com/postpdm/awesome-jupyter) repo, or place the [issue](https://github.com/postpdm/awesome-jupyter/issues) to github repo, or post the interesting links here.

Thank you!

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