AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'method'

Question

Hey guys I've been working on my final project. I keep running into this error When I run flask, this error occurs

File "/home/ubuntu/project/app.py", line 88, in login
if request.method == "GET":
AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'method'

It points towards this line

if request.method == "GET":

I don't understand why it doesn't work. A friendly soul on the CS50 discord has pointed me towards this stack overflow link https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46520034/attributeerror-function-object-has-no-attribute-method-for-if-request-metho but I don't understand what "flask.request is LocalProxy unbound but requests.request is a function" means. I would appreciate a lot if anybody could help me with this. Here's my code in case it helps to diagnose the issue.

import os
from flask import Flask, flash, redirect, render_template, request, session
from flask import request
from flask_session import Session
import sqlite3
from cs50 import SQL
from tempfile import mkdtemp
from werkzeug.exceptions import default_exceptions, HTTPException, InternalServerError
from werkzeug.security import check_password_hash, generate_password_hash
from datetime import datetime
from functools import wraps

# Configure application
app = Flask(__name__)

def login_required(f):
    """
    Decorate routes to require login.

    https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/patterns/viewdecorators/
    """
    @wraps(f)
    def decorated_function(*args, **kwargs):
        if session.get("user_id") is None:
            return redirect("/login")
        return f(*args, **kwargs)
    return decorated_function

db = SQL("sqlite:///database.db")

# Configure session to use filesystem (instead of signed cookies)
app.config["SESSION_FILE_DIR"] = mkdtemp()
app.config["SESSION_PERMANENT"] = False
app.config["SESSION_TYPE"] = "filesystem"
Session(app)


# Ensure templates are auto-reloaded
app.config["TEMPLATES_AUTO_RELOAD"] = True


# Ensure responses aren't cached
@app.after_request
def after_request(response):
    response.headers["Cache-Control"] = "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
    response.headers["Expires"] = 0
    response.headers["Pragma"] = "no-cache"
    return response

@app.route("/login", methods=["GET", "POST"])
def login():
    """Log user in"""
    if request.method == "GET":
        return render_template("login.html")

    # User reached route via POST (as by submitting a form via POST)
    if request.method == "POST":
        session.clear()


        # Ensure username was submitted
        if not request.form.get("username"):
            return("Apologies, no username was inputted")

        # Ensure password was submitted
        elif not request.form.get("password"):
            return("Apologies, no password was inputted")

        if request.form.get("accountType") == "Ward":
            # Query database for username
            rows = db.execute("SELECT * FROM ward_info WHERE username = ?", request.form.get("username"))

            # Ensure username exists and password is correct
            if len(rows) != 1 or not check_password_hash(rows[0]["hash"], request.form.get("password")):
                return apology("invalid username and/or password", 403)

            # Remember which user has logged in
            session["user_id"] = rows[0]["id"]

            # Redirect user to home page
            return redirect("/")

        if request.form.get("accountType") == "Guardian":
            # Query database for username
            rows = db.execute("SELECT * FROM guardian_info WHERE username = ?", request.form.get("username"))

            # Ensure username exists and password is correct
            if len(rows) != 1 or not check_password_hash(rows[0]["hash"], request.form.get("password")):
                return apology("invalid username and/or password", 403)

            # Remember which user has logged in
            session["user_id"] = rows[0]["id"]

            # Redirect user to home page
            return redirect("/")

Thanks!

Answer 1

I solved it by changing

from flask import Flask, flash, redirect, render_template, request, session

into

import flask

and placed flask. in front of request

Answer 2

You can solve it by importing request from flask

from flask import Flask, request