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Christian Basile
Christian Basile
2,067 Points
Posted by Christian Basile
Christian Basile
2,067 Points

typeError missing 1 required positional argument:'model'

(base) Christians-MacBook-Pro:Sflask christianbasile$ python app.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "app.py", line 9, in <module> import forms File "/Users/christianbasile/Desktop/Sflask/forms.py", line 2, in <module> from models import User File "/Users/christianbasile/Desktop/Sflask/models.py", line 65, in <module> class Post(Model): File "/Users/christianbasile/Desktop/Sflask/models.py", line 67, in Post user=ForeignKeyField(rel_model=User, related_name='posts') TypeError: init() missing 1 required positional argument: 'model'

I would appreciate the help. Thanks

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

The error message indicates that "models.py", line 67, has this line (indentation uncertain):

user=ForeignKeyField(rel_model=User, related_name='posts')

This line is clearly passing arguments for "rel_model" and "related_name", but the error says that the definition requires an argument named 'model' which is missing.

You may need to review the definition for "ForeignKeyField" to determine if this argument should be supplied, or eliminated or made optional in the definition.

Christian Basile
Christian Basile
2,067 Points
Christian Basile
Christian Basile
2,067 Points

Thank you , I am new to flask , it seems the libraries changed, I changed : This ...... class Post(Model): timestamp = DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now) user=ForeignKeyField(rel_model=User, related_name='posts') content= TextField('-timestamp',)

to This: and it solved the problem! Thanks , now I am trying to see what changed in wtforms.validators , -Thanks for the help.

class Post(Model): timestamp = DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now) user=ForeignKeyField(model=User, backref='posts') content= TextField('-timestamp',)

Christian Basile
Christian Basile
2,067 Points
Christian Basile
Christian Basile
2,067 Points

This fixed the problem, thank you Steven. class Post(Model): timestamp = DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now) user=ForeignKeyField(model=User, backref='posts') content= TextField('-timestamp',) class Meta: database=DATABASE