flask notes: url_for
url_for in Flask is used for creating a URL to prevent the overhead of having to change URLs throughout an application (including in templates). Without url_for, if there is a change in the root URL of your app then you have to change it in every page where the link is present.
example:
@app.route('/index')
@app.route('/')
def index():
return 'you are in the index page'
Now if you have a link the index page:you can use this:
<a href={{ url_for('index') }}>Index</a>
example 2:
@app.route('/questions/<int:question_id>'):
def find_question(question_id):
return ('you asked for question{0}'.format(question_id))
For the above we can use:
<a href = {{ url_for('find_question' ,question_id=1) }}>Question 1</a>
Like this you can simply pass the parameters!
example 3:
<script src="{{ url_for('static', filename='jquery.min.js') }}"></script>
<link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href="{{ url_for('static', filename='style.css') }}">
ref:
source
