PeteBoucher / shopping-list

shopping-list

Lesson 1

Output a list

Section 1

Create a shopping list and let pyton print it to the command line

1. Create a List and populate it with the fruit and veg Mum needs in this weeks shopping trip.
2. Define a function to print out the list to the command line and call it from __main__
3. Run the app python3 main.py
4. Output should be ['EGGS X24', 'FRUIT', 'BANANAS', 'BERRIES', 'CUCUMBERS', 'LETTUCE', 'SQUASH (1/2)', 'MUSHROOMS', 'POTS', 'ASPARAGUS X2', 'LEEKS', 'SWEET POTS', 'FRESH PINEAPPLE', 'TOMS'] `

Section 2

1. Import Flask and use pip to install it pip3 install flask
2. Follow the Quickstart example in the Flask docs to create a simple flask page
3. Replace the hello world function with one that outputs your list to the page as a string using ''.join(shopping_list)
4. Observe output is not readable, all the items are smooshed together in one line
5. Modify the function to build an output String from the list as an unordered list <ul> in HTML

Bonus activity

6. Commit your code to git git init && git commit -m 'initial shopping list flask app'
7. Push to a public repo git remote add origin [MY_REPO] && git push