Python Flask Tutorial: Full-Featured Web App Part 7 - User Account and Profile Picture

In this Python Flask Tutorial, we will be finishing our user account page so that a user can update their information. We will also be adding the ability for a user to upload a profile picture. We will learn how we can resize this image so that it doesn't take up much room on our server. Let's get started...

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[kirkkenney]

For anyone wanting to delete the previous profile picture while adding a new one, I added this just before the return statement in the save_picture function:

prev_picture = os.path.join(app.root_path, 'static/profile_pics', current_user.image_file)
if os.path.exists(prev_picture):
os.remove(prev_picture)

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loving this tutorial!
i added the code to delete the old profile pic when updating with a new one. this is the if statement in the account function in routes.py


```
if form.picture.data:
old_pic = current_user.image_file
picture_file =
current_user.image_file = picture_file
if old_pic != 'default.jpg':
os.remove(os.path.join(app.root_path, 'static/profile_pics', old_pic))
```

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