from flask import Flask, render_template, redirect import datetime app = Flask(__name__); last_value: str try: with open("bozo", 'r') as f: last_value: str = f.read() except: with open("bozo", 'w+') as f: last_value = str(datetime.date.today()) f.write(last_value) @app.route("/api/update", methods = ['POST']) def update(): last_value = str(datetime.date.today()) print(last_value) with open("bozo", 'w+') as f: f.write(last_value) return render_template('home.html', date = last_value) @app.route("/", methods = ['GET']) def normal(): print(last_value) return render_template('home.html', date = last_value) if __name__ == '__main__': app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=5000, debug=1)