Pardon me if I am still getting to know Flask and Python...
I have made a .py script using python-docx to build and save a word file. At the end I want to render in my template a button with that calls '/download_file' without refreshing the page.
My document variable is declared inside def main(), which renders my template base.html
I want to perform a .save action on document so I created another function to do so. The problem is, since document is out of scope I am not sure if I can access it.
I get the error AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'save'
from flask import Flask, render_template
from docx import Document
app = Flask(__name__)
document = None
@app.route('/')
def main():
...
# new word document is built from saved information
document = Document('template.docx')
table.cell(1, 0).text = text
table.cell(1, 1).text = text
return render_template('base.html',
messages=messages_list)
@app.route('/download_file')
def save_doc():
document.save('soumission_export5.docx')
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run()
My template
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>hello world!</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type=text/javascript>
$(function() {
$('a#test').bind('click', function() {
$.getJSON('/download_file',
function(data) {
//do nothing
});
return false;
});
});
</script>
<form>
<a href=# id=test><button class='btn btn-default'>Download</button></a>
</form>
</body>
</html>
