Generate HTML

Terms defined: dataframe, random number generation seed, static directory, static file, symbolic link (symlink)

• Introduce some tools we will use
• server.py: Flask application
  • Use htpy to generate HTML
  • Convert dataframe to HTML table and insert in page
  • Get the random number generation seed from the command line if one is given
• ../shared/datagen.py: generate a dataset as Polars dataframe
  • Sex is female, male, or indeterminate
  • Weight depends on sex
  • Length correlates with sex and weight
• ./static contains symbolic link to ../shared
  • Static files shared between lessons are in ../shared
  • Making it appear under ./static simplifies configuration of static directory in Flask

Run

1. python server.py --seed 12345
2. Go to http://127.0.0.1/5000