Python Web Applications: Deploy Your Script as a Flask App
Python Web Applications: Deploy Your Script as a Flask App 관련
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You wrote a Python script that you’re proud of, and now you want to show it off to the world. But how? Most people won’t know what to do with your .py file. Converting your script into a Python web application is a great solution to make your code usable for a broad audience.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to go from a local Python script to a fully deployed Flask web application that you can share with the world.
By the end of this tutorial, you’ll know
- What web applications are and how you can host them online
- How to convert a Python script into a Flask web application
- How to improve user experience by adding HTML to your Python code
- How to deploy your Python web application to Google App Engine
In addition to walking through an example project, you’ll find a number of exercises throughout the tutorial. They’ll give you a chance to solidify what you’re learning through extra practice.
Conclusion
You covered a lot of ground in this tutorial! You started with a local Python script and transformed it into a user-friendly, fully deployed Flask application that’s now hosted on Google App Engine.
While working through this tutorial, you learned
- How web applications provide data over the Internet
- How to refactor your Python script so you can host it online
- How to create a basic Flask application
- How to manually escape user input
- How to deploy your code to Google App Engine
You can now take your local Python scripts and make them available online for the whole world to use. If you’d like to download the complete code for the application you built in this tutorial, then you can click the link below:
If you want to learn more about web development with Python, then you’re now well equipped to experiment with Python web frameworks such as Flask and Django. Keep up the good work!
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