Day 077 - Project 77 : New pages blog + url shortener

Code Help 100 Days of Code
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If you have any questions, comments or issues with this project please post them here!

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following the tutorial, but using multiple .replace() like this

page.replace("{name}", myName)

doesn’t work when i try it, only

page=page.replace("{name}", myName)

does. a miniscule issue but i still wonder why that is? i’m only copypasting from the tutorial.

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This doesn’t work because strings in Python are immutable, once they are saved to memory they cannot be changed. When using page = page.replace("{name}", myname), you are creating a new string, separate to the old string. You can check this by using the id() function.

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I’m having an issue with reflection showing in link form where there’s no href in html for that part… any thoughts? Thanks

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and for some reason it’s not pulling my style.css file either

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Hi @Thrsh001 sorry for the delay in responding to this. Can you share a link to your Repl please?

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I am on day 77 and I absolutley could not figure out what to do and even when I copypasted the code from the solution it did not work
here is the link:
https://replit.com/@DavidAtReplit/Day-077-Solution?v=1
pls help @DavidAtReplit

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Hi @Sai-GiridharGi1

Can you post a link to YOUR repl link please? The one posted is David’s.

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https://replit.com/@Sai-GiridharGi1/Day77100Days

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Thanks @Sai-GiridharGi1

Looking at your code this stands out:

@app.route('/')
def index():
  page = ""
  return page

as in the tutorial it says you should have:

@app.route('/')
def index():
  myName = "Katie"
  page = ""
  f = open("template/portfolio.html", "r")
  page = f.read()
  f.close()
  page = page.replace("{name}", myName) # Replace all instances of {name} with the contents of the 'myName' variable
  
  return page

(obviously you’ll have to change portfolio.html to blog.html for the challenge)

I see that the solution @DavidAtReplit posted matches your code at the moment and this will be corrected soon, however it is a challege for you to work out using the tutorial as a guide so with a little reading back through the tutorial you should have been able to work this out.

Hope the above explanation helps point you in the right direction.

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Screenshot 2023-07-24 151514
Yes, But you see I already did that in the app route “/hello” and when you type in /hello at the end of the url. the replace function is not replacing it.

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Nevermind, it worked when I did

page = page.replace("blank",blank)

thanks a lot!

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