from flask import Flask, render_template, redirect import datetime from textwrap import wrap app = Flask(__name__); values = "" try: with open("bozo", 'r') as f: values = f.read() except: values = str(datetime.date.today()) with open("bozo", 'w+') as f: f.write(values) @app.route("/api/update", methods = ['POST']) def update(): global values new_value = str(datetime.date.today()) if new_value not in values: values += " " + new_value with open("bozo", 'w+') as f: f.write(values) return redirect('/') @app.route("/", methods = ['GET']) def normal(): print(values.split(" ")) return render_template('home.html', dates = wrap(values, 10)) if __name__ == '__main__': app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=5000, debug=1)