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Mesrop Janoyan
10,165 PointsWhy isn't this code working?
It doesn't work when I give the argument name a default value either. What am I doing wrong?
from flask import Flask
from flask import request
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
def index(name):
return 'Hello {}'.format(name)
2 Answers
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsThe issue is you are not grabbing the name from the request query arguments.
name = request.args.get('name')
Andreas cormack
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,011 PointsHi Mesrop
The problem is you have not defined what name is. You need to pass a default value for the variable name.
See below
from flask import Flask
from flask import request
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
def index(name="Your name"):
return 'Hello {}'.format(name)