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Python Flask Basics Character Builder Starting the Builder

Bernardus Ivan
Bernardus Ivan
3,928 Points
Posted by Bernardus Ivan
Bernardus Ivan
3,928 Points

what installed packages need to run this app.py if setup python local machine?

what installed packages need to run this app.py if setup python local machine? when i use pip freeze

(Flask-Basic-Finish)ivan@ivan-MS-7640:~/Flask-Basic-Finish$ pip freeze

cookies==2.2.1

Flask==0.10.1

itsdangerous==0.24

Jinja2==2.7.3

MarkupSafe==0.23

mock==1.0.1

requests==2.7.0

responses==0.4.0

six==1.9.0

Werkzeug==0.10.4

wheel==0.24.0

why i am asking this :

builtins.TypeError

TypeError: Expected bytes
Traceback (most recent call last)

    File "/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1836, in __call__

    return self.wsgi_app(environ, start_response)

    File "/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1820, in wsgi_app

    response = self.make_response(self.handle_exception(e))

    File "/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1403, in handle_exception

    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)

    File "/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/flask/_compat.py", line 33, in reraise

    raise value

    File "/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1817, in wsgi_app

    response = self.full_dispatch_request()

    File "/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1477, in full_dispatch_request

    rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)

    File "/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1381, in handle_user_exception

    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)

    File "/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/flask/_compat.py", line 33, in reraise

    raise value

    File "/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1475, in full_dispatch_request

    rv = self.dispatch_request()

    File "/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1461, in dispatch_request

    return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)

    File "/home/treehouse/workspace/app.py", line 41, in save

    response.set_cookie('character', data)

    File "/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/werkzeug/wrappers.py", line 1008, in set_cookie

    self.charset))

    File "/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/werkzeug/http.py", line 920, in dump_cookie

    value = to_bytes(value, charset)

    File "/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/werkzeug/_compat.py", line 186, in to_bytes

    raise TypeError('Expected bytes')

    TypeError: Expected bytes

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that the reason

Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

Hi Bernardus Ivan, I've formatted some of the response/error code you received to make it a bit easier to read.

Unfortunately I have no idea what could be happening here.

Kenneth Love, any ideas?

1 Answer

john larson
john larson
16,594 Points
john larson
john larson
16,594 Points

This is an old question, but I had similar issues so I'll add this. The only thing I found that did a nice job getting flask to run local was Anaconda. It seems to have all the dependencies. In python 3.6 (which I have installed) request is no longer an import it has to be downloaded. Anaconda made it as simple as downloading it from them. Flask installed seamlessly as well. I haven't done it yet but from what I understand, Anaconda does virtual environments as well, in case you have different dependencies for different projects.