Flask By Example

Chapter 4. User Input for Our Headlines Project

Remember how we allowed the user to specify the publication to be viewed by using <variable> parts in our URL? Although we were effectively getting input from our user, it's a way of retrieving input that has some pretty heavy limitations. Let's look at some more powerful ways to interact with our users, and add some more useful information to our application. We'll be making quite a few incremental changes to our code files from here on, so remember that you can always refer to the accompanying code bundle if you need an overview at any point.

In this chapter, we'll look at some more flexible and powerful ways to get input. We'll also bump into some more advanced Git features along the way, and take ...