[Tutor] if request.method == 'GET': NameError: global name 'request' is not defined

[Alan Gauld]

On 18/01/16 02:13, sudipto manna wrote:
> Here is the code snippet:
>
> File#FlaskTest2.py
>
> from flask import Flask
>
> app = Flask(__name__)
>
> #Make an app.route() decorator here
> @app.route("/puppies/", methods = ['GET' , 'POST'])
> def puppiesFunction():
>   if request.method == 'GET':
>   return getAllPuppies()
>
As suspected the error is correct. You do not have a request object
anywhere in your code. A quick Google tells me that it is part
of Flask. So you need to import request from your flask module:

from flask import Flask, request,,....# any other names you use

hth

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