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15,795 PointsAfter solving task 2 task 1 is no longer passing. Why?
How to pass a data into format?
from flask import Flask
from flask import request
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
@app.route('/<name>')
def hello(name="test"):
return "Hello {name}".format(name)
1 Answer
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsWhen using named formats you need to assign the value to the name. It would also work to change {name}
to {}
or {0}
:
@app.route('/')
@app.route('/<name>')
def hello(name=None): # <-- Change default value to None
return 'Hello {name}'.format(name=name) # <-- Change format arguments
Also, I changed default argument value to None
so that you don't get "Hello Test" when using route '/'