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Python Flask Basics Welcome to Flask Request args

Jeremy Kerrigan
Jeremy Kerrigan
12,002 Points
Posted by Jeremy Kerrigan
Jeremy Kerrigan
12,002 Points

Why won't this pass?? Please help

Challenge Task 1 of 1

Import request from Flask. Then update the index view to return "Hello {name}", replacing {name} with a name argument in the query string.

What is wrong with my code? Thanks

flask_app.py 
from flask import Flask
from flask import request
app = Flask(__name__)

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

2 Answers

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points

Where is name expected to come from? The task says "replacing {name} with a name argument in the query string.". This means to use the request.args.get() to retrieve the name:

from flask import Flask
from flask import request
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def index(name= "Treehouse"):
    name = request.args.get('name', name)
    return "Hello {}".format(name)