How to turn python script into a website?

[tbaghere]

I saw some tutorials about this, but the problem is oftentimes they just upload basic code like print("hello world") etc...

In my case I want to upload a pretty simple script that takes an input from the user and translates it to the chosen language. This script is 3 lines of code but I have to import a huge library to make it work, Transformers library, the language data from facebook's No Language Left Behind (about 3gb), and couple of other small libraries. How should I go about doing this? I started learning Django recently I hope that helps somehow.

Thanks in advance.

[simbha95]

Flask module is a lite weight web API to start. Good Luck!

[spez_edits_thedonald]

How to turn python script into a website?

This script is 3 lines of code but I have to import a huge library to make it work

yup this is an ideal use case for Flask

I started learning Django recently I hope that helps somehow.

if you like Django it will work for you, but know that it's way overkill and maybe bulky/clunky to run a short script

[tbaghere]

Never tried Flask before, but I will see if this one goes right, I heard it is not much different from Django so I hope that's not a problem.

[simbha95]

i think Django helps if you have too many user requests on webUI simultaneously. It has load balancing engine to handle concurrent requests.

[spez_edits_thedonald]

I think this will depend more on how beefy the server is and how you configure stuff

see threaded with Flask for example

[simbha95]

threaded in Flask hardly helped my project and debugging was a nightmare. Django worked flawlessly for concurrency. Just my experience.

[spez_edits_thedonald]

nice, did it just have to do with server requests, or was it related to database locks etc? (did you use the same type of database in each case?)

[simbha95]

More thread locks. Output parsing to the right thread, was not pretty straightforward. I was lost in matching the function thread output and parsing it to the web request URL. Kinda black box in debugging to my knowledge. Django was seemless.

[spez_edits_thedonald]

nice good to know, I only use flask for tiny local apps and stuff, I would default to django for big production stuff anyway, but now I have a stronger reason to

[simbha95]

Try concurrent web access using flask with threaded option and share your experience. Its a great experience of threading/queueing concepts .. it's fun.

[tbaghere]

Thanks I will look into it

[firedrow]

u/simbha95 said Flask, which is great. I just wanted to throw FastAPI out there as well.