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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python
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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python

by Silas Toms, Paul Crickard, Eric van Rees
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
440 pages
11h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Evaluating the request method

The next line is an if conditional that uses the request.method property to see if the HTTP request method is POST:

if request.method == "POST":

Because the initial request to the URL arenas is a GET request, the code initially evaluates the if conditional as False, skipping the indented code section to the bottom of the view to return the template index.html and the now populated form:

return render_template('index.html',form=form)

This function returns uses the render_template function to return the template called index.html and passes the populated ArenaForm variable called form into the template, making it possible for the Jinja2 templating system to generate the completed web page and send it to the requesting ...

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