py-ip-validator | py-ip-validator

The portal is a Flask web application written in Python. It’s currently easy to install as long as you have a Python 3 environment. Be aware that this is currently a local development installation, it’s not ready for deployment as a reliable application to a server. We’re working on that. That said there’s a few stages to getting going: 1. Getting the code. 2. Setting up a Python 3 virtualenv (optional but recommended). 3. Installing the validator prototype and its dependencies. 4. Running the validator on test samples provided in https://github.com/DILCISBoard/eark-ip-test-corpus/tree/master/corpus/structure/root. Let’s take a look in a little more detail. We’ve provided some helper scripts for virtualenv setup, deployment and running which we’ll also point you to.
We need to create a Python virtualenv in the project root folder in a venv subdirectory and activate it thus: `bash $ virtualenv -p python3 venv $ source ./venv/bin/activate ` There’s a helper script in the root directory you can run instead: $ ./venv.sh. If this has worked your terminal prompt should be adorned with a venv marker, e.g. (venv) $. You only need to create the virtualenv once, although you can remove it by simply deleting the venv subdirectory. You’ll need to activate the virtualenv source ./venv/bin/activate every time you start a new terminal session.