We welcome contributions to this project! Our issue tracker has open bugs, feature requests, etc. We encourage you to introduce yourself to the community in our forums before leaping into action.
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In order to run this site locally, you'll want to clone this repository and install the requirements (check the Mac Troubleshooting section if you face any errors):
git clone https://github.com/psf/python-in-edu.git
cd python-in-edu
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
You can then change directories into the python-in-edu folder and build the database:
python manage.py migrate
To run the project locally, run the following command in the terminal:
python manage.py runserver
If you use heroku cli installed on your system, simply run:
heroku local
To test, run:
python manage.py test
If you want to use or test email functionality locally, you'll need to run a simple SMTP server:
python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025
We use the Spirit project for our forums.
If you don't have an installation of Postgres on your system, you might run into the following error:
Error: pg_config executable not found.
Install Postgres to resolve this issue.
If your Pillow installation fails during installing the requirements with the following message:
The headers or library files could not be found for jpeg,
a required dependency when compiling Pillow from source.