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Posted by michaelangelo owildeberry
michaelangelo owildeberry
18,172 Points

Pass the name argument to the template. Print the name variable in the <h1> in the template.

"Didn't find the passed-in name in the template." Please help =)

flask_app.py 
from flask import Flask
from flask import render_template

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/hello/<name>')
def hello(name="Treehouse"):
    return render_template("hello.html", name='name')
    return 'Hello {}'.format(name)
templates/hello.html 
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head><title>Hello!</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Howdy!</h1>
</body>
</html>

5 Answers

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

You don't have a {{ name }} in the template and you're always hardcoding name to the string "name" when you render the template.

Erion Vlada
Erion Vlada
13,496 Points
Erion Vlada
Erion Vlada
13,496 Points

This will work, your two errors are, like Kenneth Love said, you used name = 'name' instead of name = name and you didn't put {{name}} in your html template so that value is actually used.

from flask import Flask
from flask import render_template 

app = Flask(__name__)


@app.route('/hello/<name>')
def hello(name="Treehouse"):
    return render_template("hello.html", name = name)
Ruby R
Ruby R
1,086 Points
Ruby R
Ruby R
1,086 Points

I got bummer - Dint find the passind-in name in the template.

Code:

from flask import Flask
from flask import render_template

app = Flask(__name__)


@app.route('/hello/<name>')
def hello(name='Treehouse'):
  context={'name':name}
  return render_template("hello.html", **context)

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head><title>Hello {{name}}!</title></head>
<body>
<h1>{{name}}</h1>
</body>
</html>
Ron Fisher
Ron Fisher
5,752 Points
Ron Fisher
Ron Fisher
5,752 Points

Michaelangelo,

I haven't taken this course but the web info shows you have to have a placeholder for the incoming variable. It shows something like {{ name }}.

Ron

michaelangelo owildeberry
michaelangelo owildeberry
18,172 Points
michaelangelo owildeberry
michaelangelo owildeberry
18,172 Points

Right =) I am so used to only editing one file that html escapes my grasp.