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I am continuing my journey into django, but today I am not at my workstation. I am ssh’d in remotely from a chromebook. I am fully outside of my network, so I can’t access it by localhost, or it’s ip. I do have cloudflared tunnel installed and dns setup to a localhost.waylonwalker.com.

I found this in settings.py and yolo, it worked first try. I am in from my remote location, and even have auth taken care of thanks to cloudflare. I am really hoping to learn how to setup my own auth with django as this is one of the things that I could really use in my toolbelt.

I have no experience in django, and in my exploration to become a better python developer I am dipping my toe into one of the most polished and widely used web frameworks Django to so that I can better understand it and become a better python developer.

If you found this at all helpful make sure you check out the django tutorial

The first thing I need to do is render out a template to start the project. For this I need the django-admin cli. To get this I am going the route of pipx it will be installed globally on my system in it’s own virtual environment that I don’t have to manage. This will be useful only for using startproject as far as I know.

pipx install django django-admin startproject try_django cd try_django

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While updating my site to use Markata’s new configurable head I ran into some escaping issues. Things like single quotes would cause jinja to fail as it was closing quotes that it shouldnt have.

Jinja comes with a handy utility for escaping strings. I definitly tried to over-complicate this before realizing. You can just pipe your variables into e to escape them. This has worked pretty flawless at solving some jinja issues for me.

<p> {{ title|e }} </p>

Creating meta tags in Markata #

The issue I ran into was when trying to setup meta tags with the new configurable head, some of my titles have single quotes in them. This is what I put in my markata.toml to create some meta tags.

[[markata.head.meta]] name = "og:title" content = "{{ title }}"

Using my article titles like this ended up causing this syntax error when not escaped.

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Hatch allows you to specify direct references for dependencies in your pyproject.toml file. This is useful when you want to depend on a package that is not available on PyPI or when you want to use a specific version from a Git repository. Often used for unreleased packages, or unreleased versions of packages.

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When I am developing python code I often have a repl open alongside of it running snippets ofcode as I go. Ipython is my repl of choice, and I hace tricked it out the best I can and I really like it. The problem I recently discovered is that I have way overcomplicated it.

So in the past the way I have setup a few extensions for myself is to add something like this to my ~/.ipython/profile_default/startup directory. It sets up some things like rich highlighting or in this example automatic imports. I even went as far as installing some of these in the case I didn’t have them installed.

import subprocess from IPython import get_ipython from IPython.core.error import UsageError ipython = get_ipython() try: ipython.run_line_magic("load_ext pyflyby", "inline") except UsageError: print("installing pyflyby") subprocess.Popen( ["pip", "install", "pyflyby"], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL, ).wait() ipython.run_line_magic("load_ext pyflyby", "inline") print("installing isort") subprocess.Popen( ["pip", "install", "isort"], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,...