Can Flask post internally in python?

Question

Is it possible to make an internal post in flask? I'm trying to figure out how to post to an external site inside of python. Lets say I have a simple method like:

    @app.route("/<test_value>", methods=["GET","POST"])  
        def test_post(test_value):
            ?post?(test_value, url)
            return redirect("/")

Is there method I could use to make that post or would I be best off using javascript?

Answer 1

The requests library is the most popular one, here is a sample code on how to send a post with some data.

>>> payload = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}
>>> r = requests.post("http://httpbin.org/post", data=payload)
>>> print(r.text)
{
  ...
  "form": {
    "key2": "value2",
    "key1": "value1"
  },
  ...
}