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explain escape at top of quickstart
* introduce escape, and explain why it's omitted in examples * clean up imports in examples
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Quickstart
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==========
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Eager to get started? This page gives a good introduction to Flask. It
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assumes you already have Flask installed. If you do not, head over to the
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:ref:`installation` section.
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Eager to get started? This page gives a good introduction to Flask.
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Follow :doc:`installation` to set up a project and install Flask first.
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A Minimal Application
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---------------------
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A minimal Flask application looks something like this::
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A minimal Flask application looks something like this:
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.. code-block:: python
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from flask import Flask
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from markupsafe import escape
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app = Flask(__name__)
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@app.route('/')
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@app.route("/")
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def hello_world():
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return 'Hello, World!'
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return f"<p>Hello, {escape(name)}!</p>"
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So what did that code do?
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1. First we imported the :class:`~flask.Flask` class. An instance of this
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class will be our WSGI application.
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2. Next we create an instance of this class. The first argument is the name of
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the application's module or package. If you are using a single module (as
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in this example), you should use ``__name__`` because depending on if it's
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started as application or imported as module the name will be different
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(``'__main__'`` versus the actual import name). This is needed so that
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Flask knows where to look for templates, static files, and so on. For more
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information have a look at the :class:`~flask.Flask` documentation.
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3. We then use the :meth:`~flask.Flask.route` decorator to tell Flask what URL
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should trigger our function.
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4. The function is given a name which is also used to generate URLs for that
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particular function, and returns the message we want to display in the
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user's browser.
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1. First we imported the :class:`~flask.Flask` class. An instance of
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this class will be our WSGI application.
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2. Next we create an instance of this class. The first argument is the
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name of the application's module or package. ``__name__`` is a
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convenient shortcut for this that is appropriate for most cases.
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This is needed so that Flask knows where to look for resources such
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as templates and static files.
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3. We then use the :meth:`~flask.Flask.route` decorator to tell Flask
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what URL should trigger our function.
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4. The function returns the message we want to display in the user's
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browser. The default content type is HTML, so HTML in the string
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will be rendered by the browser.
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Just save it as :file:`hello.py` or something similar. Make sure to not call
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.. note:: HTML escaping
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When returning HTML (the default response type in Flask), any user
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input rendered in the output must be escaped to protect from
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injection attacks. HTML templates in Jinja, introduced later, will
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do this automatically. :func:`~markupsafe.escape`, shown above, can
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be used manually. It's omitted for brevity in the examples below.
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Save it as :file:`hello.py` or something similar. Make sure to not call
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your application :file:`flask.py` because this would conflict with Flask
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itself.
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To run the application you can either use the :command:`flask` command or
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python's ``-m`` switch with Flask. Before you can do that you need
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To run the application, use the :command:`flask` command or
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:command:`python -m flask`. Before you can do that you need
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to tell your terminal the application to work with by exporting the
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``FLASK_APP`` environment variable::
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``FLASK_APP`` environment variable:
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.. code-block:: text
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$ export FLASK_APP=hello.py
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$ flask run
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PS C:\path\to\app> $env:FLASK_APP = "hello.py"
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Alternatively you can use :command:`python -m flask`::
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$ export FLASK_APP=hello.py
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$ python -m flask run
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* Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/
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This launches a very simple builtin server, which is good enough for testing
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but probably not what you want to use in production. For deployment options see
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:ref:`deployment`.
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@app.route('/user/<username>')
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def show_user_profile(username):
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# show the user profile for that user
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return 'User %s' % escape(username)
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return f'User {username}'
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@app.route('/post/<int:post_id>')
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def show_post(post_id):
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# show the post with the given id, the id is an integer
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return 'Post %d' % post_id
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return f'Post {post_id}'
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@app.route('/path/<path:subpath>')
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def show_subpath(subpath):
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# show the subpath after /path/
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return 'Subpath %s' % escape(subpath)
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return f'Subpath {subpath}'
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Converter types:
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.. code-block:: python
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from flask import Flask, escape, url_for
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app = Flask(__name__)
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from flask import url_for
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@app.route('/')
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def index():
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@app.route('/user/<username>')
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def profile(username):
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return '{}\'s profile'.format(escape(username))
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return f'{username}\'s profile'
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with app.test_request_context():
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print(url_for('index'))
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automatically. If you can trust a variable and you know that it will be
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safe HTML (for example because it came from a module that converts wiki
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markup to HTML) you can mark it as safe by using the
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:class:`~jinja2.Markup` class or by using the ``|safe`` filter in the
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:class:`~markupsafe.Markup` class or by using the ``|safe`` filter in the
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template. Head over to the Jinja 2 documentation for more examples.
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Here is a basic introduction to how the :class:`~jinja2.Markup` class works::
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>>> from flask import Markup
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>>> from markupsafe import Markup
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>>> Markup('<strong>Hello %s!</strong>') % '<blink>hacker</blink>'
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Markup(u'<strong>Hello <blink>hacker</blink>!</strong>')
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>>> Markup.escape('<blink>hacker</blink>')
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The other possibility is passing a whole WSGI environment to the
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:meth:`~flask.Flask.request_context` method::
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from flask import request
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with app.request_context(environ):
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assert request.method == 'POST'
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:func:`~werkzeug.utils.secure_filename` function that
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Werkzeug provides for you::
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from flask import request
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from werkzeug.utils import secure_filename
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@app.route('/upload', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
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Imagine you have a view like this::
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from flask import render_template
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@app.errorhandler(404)
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def not_found(error):
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return render_template('error.html'), 404
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:func:`~flask.make_response` and get the response object to modify it, then
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return it::
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from flask import make_response
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@app.errorhandler(404)
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def not_found(error):
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resp = make_response(render_template('error.html'), 404)
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.. code-block:: python
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from flask import jsonify
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@app.route("/users")
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def users_api():
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users = get_all_users()
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In order to use sessions you have to set a secret key. Here is how
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sessions work::
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from flask import Flask, session, redirect, url_for, escape, request
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app = Flask(__name__)
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from flask import session
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# Set the secret key to some random bytes. Keep this really secret!
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app.secret_key = b'_5#y2L"F4Q8z\n\xec]/'
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@app.route('/')
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def index():
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if 'username' in session:
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return 'Logged in as %s' % escape(session['username'])
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return f'Logged in as {session["username"]}'
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return 'You are not logged in'
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@app.route('/login', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
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session.pop('username', None)
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return redirect(url_for('index'))
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The :func:`~flask.escape` mentioned here does escaping for you if you are
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not using the template engine (as in this example).
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.. admonition:: How to generate good secret keys
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A secret key should be as random as possible. Your operating system has
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