flask app post request from html code example

Example 1: get post request data flask

@app.route('/form-example', methods=['GET', 'POST']) #allow both GET and POST requests
def form_example():
    if request.method == 'POST':  #this block is only entered when the form is submitted
        language = request.form.get('language')
        framework = request.form['framework']

        return '''<h1>The language value is: {}</h1>
                  <h1>The framework value is: {}</h1>'''.format(language, framework)

    return '''<form method="POST">
                  Language: <input type="text" name="language"><br>
                  Framework: <input type="text" name="framework"><br>
                  <input type="submit" value="Submit"><br>
              </form>'''

Example 2: flask sending post request

#make a POST request
import requests
dictToSend = {'question':'what is the answer?'}
res = requests.post('http://localhost:5000/tests/endpoint', json=dictToSend)
print 'response from server:',res.text
dictFromServer = res.json()