To document individual functions in Python, use a docstring like this:
def example_function():
"""Performs xyz
More details here
"""
Discussed in answers here.
Running flask on a different port
Flask by default runs on port 8000. To run on a different port use:
python3 -m flask --app your-flask-app run -p 3000
From here.
Managing and installing pip3 modules with venv and requirements.txt on MacOS
External python dependencies can be installed with pip, and managed as a list of dependencies for your project with a requirements.txt file. To install dependencies for a project, use:
> python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
On MacOS, it’s no longer possible to install global modules, unless you force the install with the ‘–break-system-packages’ option, if you pip like above, you’ll see the error:
error: externally-managed-environment
× This environment is externally managed
Instead, create a virtual environment for your project where dependencies local to your project are installed:
> python3 -m venv .venv
> source .venv/bin/activate
Now you can run pip install and all dependent modules will be installed beneath .venv in your project folder.
Previous posts about AI Models and Code Generation
If you browse online software development communities, questions from new developers about AI replacing the need for developers are asked almost daily.
Here’s a couple of my past posts on this topic from 2023 and 2022 which I feel still hold true: