Python information and short questions megathread.

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narthollis: May 7, 2013

onionradish posted:

I built a basic web app using BaseHTTPServer that does simple formatting based on an sqlite database. It works totally fine as is, and importantly automatically launches my browser when I run the script:
Python code:
...
httpd = HTTPServer(('', 8080), RequestHandler)
webbrowser.open('http://localhost:8080')
httpd.serve_forever()
I'd like to move up to a light web framework and am trying to convert the code to bottle (single-file dependency is valued, which is why I'm not jumping to flask). However, since bottle's 'run()' method blocks, I'm not sure how to invoke webbrowser.open() once the server is active, if it's even possible.

Something like this should do what you need.

Python code:

import os

pid = os.fork()
if pid > 0:
    app.run()
else:
    webbrowser.open('http://localhost:8080')

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narthollis: May 7, 2013

QuarkJets posted:

Yeah I've never actually used GitHub; git is a great tool, though!

Indeed, before Github came along I used to push to my local server using mapped network drives - I really like the way that git is reasonably uncaring about your transfer protocol.

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