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Python

Igor Protsenko
Igor Protsenko
15,651 Points
Posted by Igor Protsenko
Igor Protsenko
15,651 Points

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Can you please clarify what does request.GET.get('q') means?

Jeff Morrison
Jeff Morrison
5,917 Points
Jeff Morrison
Jeff Morrison
5,917 Points

In handling HTTP requests, the python request.GET.get('q') parses the request and handles requests.

request: the request handles the incoming request from the website GET: this is the method on the request. If a user loads the website via GET, then this will work get: this is a get method. It will 'get' the search parameters from the URL

This will work on: http://((website}}/?q=Query the request.GET.get('q') will return 'Query'

If you POST to that page, it won't do anything. If you just go to http://{{website}}, it won't do anything (no parameter to get).