AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'get' - Flask Python

Question

Just started learning Flask. I have created a simple app with 2 endpoints. I have a dictionary that contains posts. I want to get a particular post from posts dictionary and return it to user.

Problem: When i send a request to '/posts/1' endpoint, i get following error message

"AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'get'" at this line post = posts.get(post_id)

What's the problem here and how can i fix it?

Here's my code

from flask import Flask

app = Flask(__name__)

posts = {
0: {
'title': 'Hello World',
'content': 'This is my first blog post'
},
1: {
'title': '2nd BLog Post',
'content': 'This is my second blog post'
}
}

@app.route('/')
def home():
return 'Hello World!'

@app.route('/posts/<int:post_id>')
def posts(post_id):
post = posts.get(post_id)
return f'Post\n\nTitle: {post["title"]}\nContent\n{post["content"]}'

if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(debug=True)

Answer 1

It looks to me like you are overwriting the posts dictionary when defining the posts function (the error is a giveaway for that)

Try renaming the function to something else:

def get_post(post_id): .....