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Python Build a Social Network with Flask Broadcasting Stream Views

Posted by abou93
abou93
14,318 Points

peewee.OperationalError: no such table: post What does this mean?

i've been following along with kenneth but somehow i got this error and I'm not too sure why. i've checked and rechecked and made sure everything was right but somehow this keeps coming up.

abou93
abou93
14,318 Points

what could i be missing? i created the new_post class. not sure what peewee means here

3 Answers

Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
52,175 Points
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
52,175 Points

It isn't finding a table created from the model Post in your database. For the actual post model in the models page is it called

class Post(Model):

It is also possible that somehow your code just can't read the database file. I remember in one video him mentioning that you may have to try deleting the database and restarting the app to create a new database.

abou93
abou93
14,318 Points

I deleted the database did the transaction thing and eventually got it working. thanks!

Alonso Serrano
Alonso Serrano
15,341 Points
Alonso Serrano
Alonso Serrano
15,341 Points

This problem came up during the course, at 2:58 of the Stream Templates video: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/build-a-social-network-with-flask/broadcasting/stream-templates The solution, as Kenneth mentioned above, might be to add the Post model to the create_tables() method in the initialize function in models.py.

def initialize():
    DATABASE.connect()
    DATABASE.create_tables([User, Post], safe=True)
    DATABASE.close()

Also in that file, some of the code in the create_user() function was indented within a with block:

    @classmethod
    def create_user(cls, username, email, password, admin=False):
        try:
            with DATABASE.transaction():
              cls.create(
                  username=username,
                  email=email,
                  password=generate_password_hash(password),
                  is_admin=admin)
        except IntegrityError:
            raise ValueError("User already exists")
Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

That error means that your database table hasn't been created. Most of the time, I get this when I forget to add the model to my create_tables() call.