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Flask Framework Cookbook

You're reading from   Flask Framework Cookbook Over 80 hands-on recipes to help you create small-to-large web applications using Flask

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783983407
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shalabh Aggarwal Shalabh Aggarwal
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Preface 1. Flask Configurations FREE CHAPTER 2. Templating with Jinja2 3. Data Modeling in Flask 4. Working with Views 5. Webforms with WTForms 6. Authenticating in Flask 7. RESTful API Building 8. Admin Interface for Flask Apps 9. Internationalization and Localization 10. Debugging, Error Handling, and Testing 11. Deployment and Post Deployment 12. Other Tips and Tricks Index

Global language-switching action

In the previous recipes, we saw that the languages change on the basis of the current language preferences in the browser. However, now, we want a mechanism where we can switch the language to be used irrespective of the language in the browser. For this, we need to handle the language at the application level.

Getting ready

We start by modifying the application from the last recipe, Lazy evaluation and the gettext/ngettext functions, to accommodate the changes to enable language switching. We will add an extra URL part to all our routes to add the current language. We can just change this language in the URL to switch between languages.

How to do it…

The first change that we need to do is modify all our URL rules to accommodate an extra URL part. So @app.route('/') will become @app.route('/<lang>/'), and @app.route('/home') will become @app.route('/<lang>/home'). Similarly, @app.route('/product...

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