Button not executing Django/Python script

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In my home.html template:

  <button type="button" class="btn btn-dark"
          method = 'GET' action = '/action_name/' name="audio_record">Record Audio</button>

In my views.py:

def audio_functions(request):
    print('called function')

In my urls.py:

path('/action_name/', views.audio_functions, name='audio-record'),

what am i doing wrong?

Edit: I replaced the button with the suggested version below:

  <a href="{% url 'audio-record' %}" class="btn btn-dark"
    >Record Audio</a>

But I have a new problem. I actually don't want to redirect to by url/action_name. I just want to trigger the python script within the browser. How can I do this?

SALAH EDDINE ELGHARBI · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-28 23:54:42Z

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in html :

   <a href="{% url 'audio-record' %}" class="btn btn-dark"
        >Record Audio</a>

and urls.py

path('action_name', views.audio_functions, name='audio-record'),

answered May 28, 2020 at 23:54

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tim-mccurrach · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-29 00:07:41Z

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In your urls.py you do not need the leading forward slash, as django adds this in automatically. Replace it with this and it should work:

path('action_name/', views.audio_functions, name='audio-record'),

Also the method and action attribues would normally go in the <form> tag, and not the button one. Also change type to submit on your button.

As @SALAHEDDINEELGHARBI says, you should really be using {% url 'audio-record' %} rather than hard-coding the url, however this is not the problem in this case (you shouldn't have a leading slash in urls as this would leave to a url with a double slash)

EDIT - In response to your edit: You can't trigger a python script within the browser. It's a common misconception. Django is a web framework built in python, yes. But anything that happens in the browse has to happen in javascript. If you want to use python, you'll need to make a call to some django endpoint, do the python, and the send it back.

edited May 29, 2020 at 0:07

answered May 28, 2020 at 23:51

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NBC Over a year ago

this doesn't seem to work (nothing prints in my terminal when i click the button)

tim-mccurrach Over a year ago

@NBC I've update the answer. If it stil doesn't work can you add what is shown in the network section of your dev-tools, when you click on the button. What is the response code on the request? Does it send?

NBC Over a year ago

ok I got it to work, but I think I messed up originally. I actually don't want to redirect to by url/action_name. I just want to trigger the python script within the browser. Sorry and thanks so much for your help.

tim-mccurrach Over a year ago

no worries, I've added an edit in reply to the edit you made in the question.

NBC Over a year ago

ah got it. Yeah I'm a rookie at this. Thanks for clarifying!

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