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Python Flask Basics Welcome to Flask View Args Through URL

Posted by Ritam Saha
Ritam Saha
1,198 Points

Why is this not letting me set the default argument for 'name' to 'Treehouse'

I looked back into the video, and it says to set the default name, I need to put the argument inside the def hello, but that is not working.

flask_app.py 
from flask import Flask

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/<name>')
def hello(name="Treehouse"):
     return 'Hello {}'.format(name)

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points

In task 1 you are to add a new route. You need to keep @app.route('/') and add the new route below this.