Flask: request vs Request

[Andrew Z]

Thank you Christopher.

On Mar 12, 2018 09:10, "Christopher Mullins" <christopherrmullins at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Could you please give some context when you reply, TIA
>>
>
> 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
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