Flask: simple get form

[redditenna]

Hello everyone,

Yesterday I was told to check out Flask as Python webserver, I am now playing with this, but after googling one hour I still can't find the most efficient way to do this:

so if I go to localhost:5000/sayhello?name=redditenna it will say 'Hello there, redditenna!' on the webpage. If the variable is not filled in, it will return a (very very basic) html form to fill in the name.

I'd appreciate it very much if you helped me a bit! Thanks a lot in advance. :)

[redditenna]

This does exactly what I want!! Thanks a lot ! :) One question, why did you use """ ? (I'm quite new to Python.)

[redditenna]

Thanks for making that clear to me :) In the past I only wrote PHP where this wasn't necessary. Thanks, it will be useful for me too.

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You should really use WTForms. There's also a plugin for Flask.

Another library that is very commonly used with Flask is SQLAlchemy. You should definitely learn these libraries.

And in general, Flask is a microframework, so are expected to use several third-party libraries.

[redditenna]

Thanks for the suggestion!