Sending data from HTML form to a Python script in Flask

Question

I have the code below in my Python script:

def cmd_wui(argv, path_to_tx):
    \"\"\"Run a web UI.\"\"\"
    from flask import Flask, flash, jsonify, render_t         


        

Answer 1

You need a Flask view that will receive POST data and an HTML form that will send it.

from flask import request

@app.route('/addRegion', methods=['POST'])
def addRegion():
    ...
    return (request.form['projectFilePath'])

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