Flask: request vs Request

[Christopher Mullins]

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> Could you please give some context when you reply, TIA
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Whoops, thanks for the reminder Mark.

So what for the Request is used  for then?


In general when you see that something in Python starts with a capital
letter, that indicates a class. Check out the relevant section of the PEP8
coding style [1], this is a good reference to have on hand.  (This
generalization doesn't apply to builtin types which follow a separate
convention, also outlined in [1] -- and of course there are a numerous
exceptions.)

This holds for your variable in question "request" which is an instance of
the Request class.  Check out [2] for more information on this.  PyCharm
tries to do its best but I've had this problem too.  You can always open up
a python REPL and look at the object yourself:

>>> import flask
>>> r = flask.Request
>>> r
<class 'flask.wrappers.Request'>
>>> dir(r)

and so on.  When I'm working in python I like to keep one of these open for
this purpose.

HTH,
Chris

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#class-names
[2] http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/api/#incoming-request-data