from flask import Flask, render_template, request, redirect app = Flask(__name__) items = ['dummy1', 'dummy2', 'a', 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'] @app.route("/") def mainpage(): return render_template('index.html', title='BG Shutdown', items=items) @app.route('/submit', methods =['POST']) def submit(): value = request.form.get("query") items.append(query) print(value) return redirect(url_for("mainpage"))