How to have an alias of URL on Python Flask?

Question

I'm using Flask 0.8.

How to have an alias of a URL like this:

@app.route('/')
def index():
    # I want to display as http://localhost/index, BUT, I DON'T WANT TO REDIRECT.
    # KEEP URL with only '/'

@app.route('/index')
def index():
    # Real processing to display /index view

So, why my hope to use an alias because of DRY of processing /index

Someone knew the solution?

thanks pepperists.

Answer 1

This should work. But why do you want two URL's to display the same thing?

@app.route('/')
@app.route('/index')
def index():
    ...

Answer 2

As is written in URL registry doc of Flask :

You can also define multiple rules for the same function. They have to be unique however.

@app.route('/users/', defaults={'page': 1})
@app.route('/users/page/<int:page>')
def show_users(page):
    pass

Answer 3

I don't know if Flask has a way to assign more than one URL to a view function, but you could certainly chain them like this:

@app.route('/')
def root():
    return index()

@app.route('/index')
def index():
    # Real processing to display /index view