Sometimes, we want to send data from a textbox into Python Flask.
In this article, we’ll look at how to send data from a textbox into Python Flask.
How to send data from a textbox into Python Flask?
To send data from a textbox into Python Flask, we can get the form values from request.form in our view.
For instance, we write
<form method="POST">
<input name="text">
<input type="submit">
</form>
to add a form into the templates/my-form.html file.
Then in our app’s code, we write
from flask import Flask, request, render_template
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
def my_form():
return render_template('my-form.html')
@app.route('/', methods=['POST'])
def my_form_post():
text = request.form['text']
processed_text = text.upper()
return processed_text
to render templates/my-form.html within the my_form route.
And we get the form values from request.form in the my_form_post route.
We get the input with the name attribute text by using request.form['text'].
Conclusion
To send data from a textbox into Python Flask, we can get the form values from request.form in our view.
