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Fernando Szymczak
17,372 PointsBuild a Social Network with Flask - peewee OperationalError
I'm having an issue similar to this user's https://teamtreehouse.com/community/flask-social-app-peewee-textfield-error
When I run my code I get this error
peewee.OperationalError: no such table: user
Here's the full traceback followed by all of my code. Any help would be much appreciated.
(Treehouse)Nando:Python Nando$ python app.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/Nando/Python/Treehouse/lib/python3.5/site-packages/peewee.py", line 3331, in execute_sql
cursor.execute(sql, params or ())
sqlite3.OperationalError: no such table: user
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "app.py", line 67, in <module>
admin=True
File "/Users/Nando/Python/models.py", line 27, in create_user
is_admin=admin)
File "/Users/Nando/Python/Treehouse/lib/python3.5/site-packages/peewee.py", line 4289, in create
inst.save(force_insert=True)
File "/Users/Nando/Python/Treehouse/lib/python3.5/site-packages/peewee.py", line 4461, in save
pk_from_cursor = self.insert(**field_dict).execute()
File "/Users/Nando/Python/Treehouse/lib/python3.5/site-packages/peewee.py", line 3113, in execute
cursor = self._execute()
File "/Users/Nando/Python/Treehouse/lib/python3.5/site-packages/peewee.py", line 2535, in _execute
return self.database.execute_sql(sql, params, self.require_commit)
File "/Users/Nando/Python/Treehouse/lib/python3.5/site-packages/peewee.py", line 3339, in execute_sql
self.commit()
File "/Users/Nando/Python/Treehouse/lib/python3.5/site-packages/peewee.py", line 3185, in __exit__
reraise(new_type, new_type(*exc_args), traceback)
File "/Users/Nando/Python/Treehouse/lib/python3.5/site-packages/peewee.py", line 123, in reraise
raise value.with_traceback(tb)
File "/Users/Nando/Python/Treehouse/lib/python3.5/site-packages/peewee.py", line 3331, in execute_sql
cursor.execute(sql, params or ())
peewee.OperationalError: no such table: user
from flask import (Flask, g, render_template, flash, redirect, url_for)
from flask.ext.login import LoginManager
import forms
import models
DEBUG = True
PORT = 8000
HOST = '0.0.0.0'
app = Flask(__name__)
app.secret_key = "haberdashery!@£$%^,;:<AlicesAdventuresInWonderland?3117>"
login_manager = LoginManager()
login_manager.init_app(app)
login_manager.login_view = 'login'
@login_manager.user_loader
def load_user(userid):
try:
return models.User.get(models.User.id == userid)
except models.DoesNotExist:
return None
@app.before_request
def before_request():
"""Connect to the database before each request."""
g.db = models.DATABASE
g.db.connect()
@app.after_request
def after_request(response):
"""Close the database connection after each request."""
g.db.close()
return response
@app.route('/register', methods=('GET', 'POST'))
def register():
form = forms.RegisterForm()
if form.validate_on_submit():
flash("Yay, you registered!", "success")
models.User.create_user(
username=form.username.data,
email=form.email.data,
password=form.password.data
)
return redirect(url_for('index'))
return render_template('register.html', form=form)
@app.route('/')
def index():
return 'Hey'
if __name__ == '__main__':
models.initialize()
try:
models.User.create_user(
username='nandoprovin',
email='nandoprovin@nandoprovin.com',
password='password',
admin=True
)
except ValueError:
pass
app.run(debug=DEBUG, host=HOST, port=PORT)
import datetime
from flask.ext.bcrypt import generate_password_hash
from flask.ext.login import UserMixin
from peewee import *
DATABASE = SqliteDatabase('social.db')
class User(UserMixin, Model):
username = CharField(unique=True)
email = CharField(unique=True)
password = CharField(max_length=100)
joined_at = DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now)
is_admin = BooleanField(default=False)
class Meta:
database = DATABASE
order_by = ('-joined_at',)
@classmethod
def create_user(cls, username, email, password, admin=False):
try:
cls.create(
username=username,
email=email,
password=generate_password_hash(password),
is_admin=admin)
except IntegrityError:
raise ValueError("User already exists")
def initialize():
DATABASE.connect()
from flask_wtf import Form
from wtforms import StringField, PasswordField
from wtforms.validators import (DataRequired, Regexp, ValidationError, Email,
Length, EqualTo)
from models import User
def name_exists(form, field):
if User.select().where(User.username == field.data).exists():
raise ValidationError('User with that name already exists.')
def email_exists(form, field):
if User.select().where(User.email == field.data).exists():
raise ValidationError('User with that email already exists.')
class RegisterForm(Form):
username = StringField(
'Username',
validators=[
DataRequired(),
Regexp(
r'^[a-zA-Z0-9_]+$',
message="Username should be one word, letters, numbers and underscores only."
),
name_exists
]
)
email = StringField(
'Email',
validators=[
DataRequired(),
Email(),
email_exists
]
)
password = PasswordField(
'Password',
validators=[
DataRequired(),
Length(min=2),
EqualTo('password2', message='Passwords must match')
]
)
password2 = PasswordField(
'Confirm Password',
validators=[DataRequired()]
)
1 Answer

Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 PointsI've run your code. It appears that your models.initialize()
is incomplete. You connect to the database but do not create the tables based on your models. Try:
def initialize():
DATABASE.connect()
DATABASE.create_tables([User], safe=True)
DATABASE.close()
Fernando Szymczak
17,372 PointsFernando Szymczak
17,372 PointsThanks, I must have deleted that bit of code while debugging it along with Kenneth's video, cause I looked over and over again and couldn't find what wasn't matching his code. That helped a lot, cheers.